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What’s the old saying “Let the Wiki win…”? (Or something like that…)

As mentioned in Weblog versus Wiki I was contemplating using MediaWiki for a project and good gosh was the install easy! It was almost too easy… You know, one of those “that’s it?” type installs you read about on weblogs…

Configuring took just a little bit of time… I wanted clean urls and to restrict editing to registered users. It took more time to find that info than it did to edit LocalSettings.php to do the right thing…

I still like UseModWiki for what it does, but so far MediaWiki is pretty damn nice…

Welcom back D-Money… Welcome back…

I have a dilemma, I want to set up a site that can accept input from a community. My choices, as I see them, are to set up a weblog (I would choose WordPress) or a wiki (most likely MediaWiki.)

My problem is that, while I think a wiki is more suited to the site I am creating, I worry that people will be afraid of contributing and editing pages. The potential users might be people who are unfamiliar with a wiki, and not quite sure how it works. Even in organizations where I’ve deployed wikis, people are often hesitant to add or modify things.

On the other hand, a weblog might be suitable because people would just have a simple comment box to fill in if they wanted to say something. Then again, saying something, or just responding to what posts the few authors might write, is a far cry from the openness of a wiki to those willing to contribute…

I’ve done plenty of WordPress installs, but while I’ve used plenty of MediaWiki sites out there, I’ve not set up my own yet. I don’t want familiarity of tools to limit me here though.

Hmmm, I’ll think about it for a bit, but any feedback on this is much appreciated…

Another day, another aggregator that does video… PenguinTV runs on Linux, and I haven’t even tried it yet, but I figured it was worth a mention since yesterday I said that video on the web will completely explode in 2005.

So now besides FireANT, iTunes, I/ON, and DTV we have PenguinTV for the Linux crowd… (Crap, did I forget mefeedia?)

Half of those clients are open-source and the rest are “freeware” (free as in beer, not free as in speech.)

So, any guesses as to how long until another video aggregator is announced?

We all know how much I like to talk about video aggregators… Well, here’s another one, DTV launched today (for Mac OS X anyway!)

Oh, and don’t forget to subscribe to tinkernet once you’ve got it running…

Are there still some of you out there who are not convinced that video on the web will completely explode in 2005?