The TiddlyTalk version: Portal Prototype for TiddlyWiki

#1

Follow-up to my GG post, so that folk who prefer TiddlyTalk can discuss and/or grab my attention here instead of over there.

Part of the project is about finding ways to maximize the potential of folk using what they prefer and integrating distributed sources of info.

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#2
  1. What’s whole outline for this?
  2. Is the outline publicly shared so that duplicate suggestions won’t happen (unless you prefer to keep it private)?
  3. Is this something that can be set up in such a way so that it’s future-proof? I.e. Capability for people to collaborate and make changes on the webpages with an approval system (an application form for collab users with interview questions?
  4. Github? Or something of the like) Maybe version control?
#3

What do you mean by outline? Maybe there’s something in my head, but I’d like for folk to tell me what they think ought to be the content, the purposes, the problems to be solved, the scope.

There’s nothing that I intend on keeping private.

Collaboration infrastructure gets built as needed. I don’t do big requirements and design up front.

I’ve got everything in my head. The time it would take to write it all down, I might as well just jump in.

Github does not apply here. It is just barely enough content easily maintained, it should just be about giving it a little fresh coat of paint once in a while to keep it lively.

For a site to look “alive”, it ought to show activity. The activity comes from everywhere outside the portal.

Changes to the web pages? The idea is: extremely rare. That’s the point of a portal. It just brings together content that is actively maintained elsewhere with whatever is the best tool for that job.

That’s the point of choosing Google Sites as a portal. There isn’t supposed to be much in it. It is just supposed to show in one place stuff that is all over hell’s half acre.

Future-proof? No such thing. Easy to recreate anywhere else? Absolutely.

EDIT: The idea of this portal is not to replace anything “out there”. It is about showing everything that is out there (or at least linking to those things out there that cannot be embedded directly in the portal.

#4

Duplicate suggestions are a good thing. It indicates interest in something. I’d prefer have multiple folk suggest the same thing, rather than have folk now bother because somebody else already has.

I’ve setup options for folk to communicate in a few different ways, private and public.

Whatever I display publicly will be disconnected from personal information.

Something like that…

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#5

There are many TiddlyWiki things that would be nice in a blog, whether a blog done in TiddlyWiki or some online offering like Blogger.

“What’s New” info would be nice in a blog.

New “How To” articles would be nice in a blog, with those how to’s embedded in a TiddlyWiki wiki. Or the embedding done vice-versa.

This video shows how easy that is with Blogger: Add a blog to Google Sites using embed URL

Good stuff for a portal site. This is the kind of thing that keeps a portal site looking alive. By maintaining a blog with regular entries, the aliveness “over there” shows in the portal site, making the portal site look alive.

Just thoughts.

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