{"id":594,"date":"2004-06-12T23:18:53","date_gmt":"2004-06-13T04:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=594"},"modified":"2004-06-12T23:18:53","modified_gmt":"2004-06-13T04:18:53","slug":"weblog-and-wiki-rhetoric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=594","title":{"rendered":"Weblog and wiki rhetoric"},"content":{"rendered":"

Weblogs and wikis are very similar in some ways. Weblogs force the reader’s attention to new posts. Wiki denizens check “recent changes” addictively to see what’s been added or changed.
\nBut there’s a key difference in genre. With weblogs, it’s considered bad form to revise. Blog readers monitor RSS feeds, and pounce when their newsreader tells them that someone has adjusted a story after publishing it.
\nWiki pages are designed to be revised. Classic wikis, like Wikipedia, Ward’s Wiki<\/a>, and Meatball Wiki<\/a> accrete and polish entries over time.
\nWeblogs foster amnesia. There’s a relentless push for novelty, at the expense of thinking more deeply about old ideas. This weblog really wants to be a wikiblog, so I can post new ideas, and then go back, add content, improve writing, add references.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Weblogs and wikis are very similar in some ways. Weblogs force the reader’s attention to new posts. Wiki denizens check “recent changes” addictively to see what’s been added or changed. But there’s a key difference in genre. With weblogs, it’s considered bad form to revise. Blog readers monitor RSS feeds, and pounce when their newsreader … Continue reading “Weblog and wiki rhetoric”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-software"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prDRq-9A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}