Stewart Nickolas, creator of IBM’s QEDWiki, working in the Emerging Technologies group in IBM for the past five years, will be a keynote speaker at WikiSym 2008. We interviewed him by e-mail to know more about his involvement with wikis and web-related issues, concretely OpenAjax and application wikis. Q: How is the OpenAjax Alliance related [...]

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Tim Berners-Lee’s intended the web to be writeable by all. Yet, for decades it’s been stuck in a “read mostly” mode. Everyone web surfs, some add content but very few really get to fundamentally re-express and re-structure web content. We know this. We wiki. Problem is, many don’t. It is hoped that the icon will [...]

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Registration for WikiSym 2008 is now available through the conference site. Due to several events in Porto on the days after and before WikiSym, hotels are likely to be booked very early. Consider booking well in advance! We are now providing pre-booked hotel options for WikiSym till the end of June!

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Martin Cleaver, Blended Perspectives. Toronto, Canada. Wiki farm: a website that offers to the public a sectioned-off set of wiki pages It’s evident that Wiki Farms, such as PBWiki, Wetpaint, Wikia and WikiSpaces are growing rapidly. Many content producers don’t have the resources or desire to install their own wiki platform behind the firewall or [...]

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Martin Cleaver Toronto, Canada Well, the deadline for posters has just passed, and for sure we have some interesting titles! I won’t tell you who submitted what because until we’ve read them and made commitments I can’t promise they will materialize. But, I will go so far as to whet your appetite! Javascript-standalone, extensions for [...]

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George Landow, Professor of Art and History at Brown University, will be one of the two keynote speakers at WikiSym 2008. We interviewed him by e-mail to get more information on how he became involved with wikis and web-related issues, as well as information on his point of view on wikis and society nowadays. Q: [...]

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Martin Cleaver MSc MBA. Blended Perspectives, Toronto. To improve business performance and to out-compete, an organization needs not only advantageous information but also to act upon it. Organizations that depend on a few key staff to gather information to help inform strategists who then “tell” the “workers” what to do will be at a disadvantage [...]

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Martin Cleaver. Blended Perspectives, Toronto Canada What makes your wiki technology special? Do you build encyclopedias or applications? While wikis are best known as a means to co-create knowledge, our industry is heating up and progress is being made in all sorts of technically interesting areas. If your organization is interested in cutting-edge wiki functionality, [...]

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