Spurred on by the heady smell of hay here in the wagon, and inspired by
Jimmy Wales’ blogging chez Lessig recently re: 10 things that want to
be free, I thought I would propose my own list of interfaces that should surely be canonical.
One downside of this plan : it will push all recent posts off the main
page very soon, and Manila has no archival offerings to speak of.
Another downside: Manila also has no categorization to speak of, so you can’t just ignore what I’m about to post.
An upside: Manila is nowhere in
the set of chainlinks in the chains on the bandwagon floor, so I should
be picking up another one in any case. Look for a collection of drupal (nice translation setup), wiki, the-other–wp (smooth wagon appeal), lj and blogger.
I would like to separate out personal/science/invention,
translation/interfaces, wiki[media]/knowledge, communication/society,
and robotwisdom/odd-news channels… with a healthy dose of abbreviated
interlinking to avoid stagnation.
Feel free to
A. suggest other excellent setups I should be trying,
B. suggest which topics would go best with which platforms, and
C. suggest how open the collaboration should be for each (topic, platform) —
First up, on the list : self-aware management and status ice
for computers (for those following along at home, a few songs may come
in handy in the heady months to come) — auto-detection of the need for
displays of memory, battery, CPU and network monitors, and improvements
on the current bloodless defaults.