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The Writable Web
Several interesting pieces on writable Web in the last few days:
- Tim Bray: Why would anyone want a word processor any more?
- Dan Bricklin releases WikiCalc
Add these to things like hCards in Kwiki and Jot. That only scratches the surface, of course. The whole “writable web” thing includes wikis of all sorts and even blogs.
Posted by windley on November 14, 2005 6:19 PM
Comment from Lee Phillips at November 15, 2005 11:25 AM
I'm glad that Tim Bray has finally discovered that word processors are a clumsy and inappropriate technology for what they are habitually used for, but he's very late to the game. Try the famous essay "Word Processors: Stupid and Inefficient" by Allin Cottrell, for example: http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/wp.html.
Besides, if he wanted his resume to look good, he should have used [la]tex.
Comment from John W. Mount at November 15, 2005 3:27 PM
Phil, the link in your comments section, http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/wp.html appears to be broken....FYI is all.
Comment from Lee Phillips at November 15, 2005 3:33 PM
The fullstop got included in the link address.
Comment from Tim Shadel at November 18, 2005 9:14 AM
Be sure to check out NumSum (http://www.numsum.com/) as an alternative to WikiCalc. It's a simple spreadsheet application that looks a decent amount like Excel, but also adds tagging to it. It's all done in JavaScript, and can be saved as a standalone HTML file and worked on offline. It's pretty cool.