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Brian Fitzgerald

Blogs vs Wikis

I'm exploring the differences between blogs and wikis and am a little confused as to why there isn't more collaboration between the two models. Perhaps there is something about wikis that I'm just not understanding, but the biggest thing that I just can not figure out with them is how one is to manage the front page. Most wiki's that am finding are using blog-like formats but are not using blog software to do it. It seemed only natural to me that there would either be a wiki plugin for blogging software or a blog plugin for some wiki software, but I can find neither. I think that the Tao of Mac is a perfect example of what I am after: a blog front page, with wiki back pages that are only editable by me. It looks like Rui mostly homegrew that solution out of PHPWiki. I don't really want to put that much trouble into it and I want to end up with something that I can still post to from a tool like ecto.

I think that I may be asking a lot here, but it seems like it would make so much sense.