In an attempt to move towards my ideal personal publishing portal, I have setup a wiki and moved my articles from .text to a new site, CategoryArticles

In the past when I setup a wiki, I didn't put any thought into it, and installed flexwiki. This time, though, I took some time and did some research, and ended up going with Wikka Wiki. Of course this decision had to come just 1 day after I cleansed my system of mysql and activeperl from my abandoned MovableType blog. Oh well. After a couple more hours of struggling with PHP and MySql, the wiki was up and going.

I choose Wikka because I really liked how it works compared to flexwiki, plus it has built in FreeMind integration, which I just found phenomenally cool. Wikka itself was very easy to setup, and just as quick to get up to speed using it. I'm also a big fan of how it handles security per page, basically keeping a separate ACL for each page where you can specify who can see, edit, and comment on the page.

I think the future direction will be to publish more and more to the wiki, and probably have blog categories that correspond to wiki pages. For example, iceip will probably get a new category, and a new blog category (probably needs a re-write more then this :). The wiki will act as the homepage, with the category as the feed. I'll do the same for DotText2DasBlog, and anything coming up in the future. Seems like a very logical way to organize my online content.

Which brings me to the subject of tags. There will be a lot more coming out of me in the way of tags moving forward. I read this article about TagWebs, and I don't know what it is about that article, but it really got me thinking about tags. Expect to see this blog start exposing explicit technorati tags (since I don't think categories as tags is good enough), and maybe the wiki will expose some tags. Call me crazy, but after a few multi hour DeliciousTrips, I really see value in tags.