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Send2Wiki

david — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 19:07:32 +0000

A few months ago I blogged about a project idea called Send2Wiki, that would let you (via a bookmarklet) send any page you’re viewing in your browser directly into a wiki for instant editing / remixing. Today I’m happy to announce that the first alpha of Send2Wiki is available! You can play with it over at http://send2wiki.com/.

Send2Wiki includes preliminary support for license detection and preservation, automated translation (via Google Language Tools), PDF support, and chrome-stripping for specific sites (some OCWs and wikipedia at this point).

The service is still definitely in alpha, and all the data you put in while you play around is likely to get nuked at some point in the future, but I would love your feedback about the idea generally and about the implementation specifically. What features are missing that we definitely need? Have any logo ideas?

The goal of the project is to make it really, really easy for people to reuse and adapt open content. Does it do that?

Tagging as Authoring

david — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 00:15:52 +0000

Too hard to figure out how to make this all run inside the blog at the end of the day… Hop over to http://opencontent.org/tagging-as-authoring/ for some thoughts on making it drop dead simple to collect, reuse, and contextualize existing resources, and find out when tagging can be authoring. Brian, thanks for teaching me to say “small pieces loosely joined.”

Amazing Ruby Tutorial

david — Tue, 27 Dec 2005 20:31:39 +0000

One of the most amazing web-based tutorials I’ve seen in a very long time: try ruby! You should really give it a try.

Solution for ad hoc web services

david — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 19:35:15 +0000

Looks like lots of excellent stuff is coming out of the Web 2.0 conference. Far and away the most interesting looking of the presentation notes online so far is Script-Tunnelling REST Using Microformats. Reading it was one of those holy-cow-why-hasn’t-someone-thought-of-this-before moments for me. Smart people are great… and it’s even better when they share. You should also see how to encode scripting data structures in XHTML microformats, which provides a real example using the XOXO (“shosho”) microformat. As an added bonus, if you call now, you can follow a link to Ian Davis’ notes about Less.

It just keeps getting easier and easier…