I’ve been considering starting a personal wiki after reading The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral by Mike Caulfield a while back. His article has some great set up and philosophy about the wiki versus blog. I’ve been using my own website/blog as a commonplace book for quite a while now to collect everything from what I’m listening to to what I read and even what I’ve highlighted/annotated online. I’ve documented a lot of the pieces I use to create/customize it. (Not everything I write is public either.)
Ultimately, I think that either way, having a solid search functionality becomes important regardless of which direction one chooses.
I really like Mike Caulfield’s Wikity theme. I reflected upon my experience here. I decided though to incorporate it into my ‘Collect’ site. My only point of confusion about the blog versus wiki is that Wikity is in fact built around ‘posts’ and WordPress.
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I built my own WikiLog engine. It’s my 3rd generation, I’ve carried forward all my pages since starting 17yrs ago….