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Posted
15 November 2007 @ 4pm

Categories
General

Vanuatu and OpenStreetmap

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Meet HervĂ© Soksok, Vanuatu’s first GPS-toting, creative-commons-licensing community cartographer.

I ran into HervĂ© at Wan Smolbag’s computer centre a few weeks ago and we swapped email addresses. He’s been attending daily computer classes there, where he spends an [...]


Posted
25 June 2007 @ 5am

Categories
Tech

Wiki review: DokuWiki

I’ve been looking for a simple, lightweight wiki application for my website since my recent redesign. Here’s what I wanted:

quick, no-nonsense install and configuration easily restrict editing access (me, and perhaps a small handful of friends) clean interface and pleasant markup that doesn’t make me want to scream (TWiki, I’m looking at you!) easily themeable to [...]


Posted
25 June 2007 @ 3am

Categories
Work

Latest work/real estate related links

Nestoria announces the winners of their API hacking contest. I really love the secondhand clothes mashup: find Oxfam shops in pricey neighbourhoods, where there are likely to be lots of designer clothes donated.

Three random cool things I’ve discovered on US real estate sites:

Zillow have a property guide wiki on their site, which has [...]


Posted
7 June 2007 @ 4pm

Categories
Tech

Yet another 5 uses for a wiki at work

I just can’t stop.

  1. Induction materials

We’ve got one wiki page called “NewDeveloperInduction”, and on the day a new hire starts, they quickly learn that that page contains — or links to — all the basic information they’re going to need to know in their first week or two. We also have a policy [...]


Posted
7 June 2007 @ 3pm

Categories
Tech

5 more uses for a wiki at work

In followup to Lifehack’s 5 uses for a wiki at work, via Social Media in Australia, here are another five:

  1. Technical documentation

Funny this wasn’t in the original five, but perhaps it’s just too obvious. Most places I’ve worked, the wiki’s been installed by the techies and has taken off in that group first. [...]