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title: "Simple, neat elegance: Wiki, weblog, and design"
date: 2002-05-10T13:17:58-04:00
url: https://blog.lmorchard.com/2002/05/10/oooadf/
author: Les Orchard
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# Simple, neat elegance: Wiki, weblog, and design

<p>Noticed two things from <a href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0100629/">Mike James</a> this morning:</p>
<p>An <a href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0100629/2002/05/10.html#a117">interesting melding of weblog and wiki</a> over at <a href="http://www.tesugen.com/">www.tesugen.com</a>.  The combination of <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/~rael/lang/perl/blosxom/">Blosxom</a>, which elegantly composes the weblog from a simple pile of files, and <a href="http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl">UseModWiki</a>, which can cache its pages in a simple pile of files, makes me think about the combination myself...  (Oh, and TWiki does this, too, not in caching but in the storage of page content in the raw.)  I could make Blosxom search for files by regex (ie. Blog*) and post to the weblog in <span style='background : #FFFFCE;'><a href="http://www.decafbad.com/twiki/bin/edit/Main/UseModWiki?topicparent=Main.FilterData"><b>?</b></a><font color="#0000FF">UseModWiki</font></span> with a naming convention of pages.  Seems neatly elegant.</p>
<p>And the second thing are the <a href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0100629/2002/05/09.html#a116">MovableWorksOfArt</a> that Mike cites.  Again, simple and neat elegance.  I'm with Mike:  I've got a lot to learn, and a lot to strip down from the design of this site.  I also really need to dig into some proper <a href="http://www.decafbad.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/CSS">CSS</a>.  <a href="http://diveintomark.org/">Mark Pilgrim's</a> <a href="http://www.decafbad.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/CSS">CSS</a> magic shames me.<br />
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                <a href="#comment-221088499" class="permalink"><time datetime="2002-05-10T13:55:17">2002-05-10T13:55:17</time></a>
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            <div class="content">http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Text-WikiFormat

# line 81 of blosxom

use Text::WikiFormat;
chomp(my $body = Text::WikiFormat::format(join '', ));

FYI...</div>
            
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                <a href="#comment-221088500" class="permalink"><time datetime="2002-05-11T06:02:44">2002-05-11T06:02:44</time></a>
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            <div class="content">On design, can I make a plea that you avail yourself of either javascript or IFRAMEs to insert the little extra bits of content like referrers and such .. just thinking robot-friendly design where the actual page doesn't churn quite so much.</div>
            
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