Regular readers of my weblogs will notice that I've not been blogging very actively lately. I've put a lot more of my online writing energy into writing on my wiki(s). Although I find writing on my wiki particularly satisfying, I know that my readers will find my wiki writing difficult to follow. I will try to correct some of those deficiencies without destroying what I do love about my wikis -- the somewhat random, drop-stuff-in-first-and-explain-later, part of wikis that has me excited about wikis. Nonetheless, I will see what I can do with the FrontPage and SiteNavigation (among other things) to help people who just drop into my wiki.

I've been trying to figuring out a flow of writing that can naturally involve both my wikis and my blogs. One idea that I've had is to review the RecentChanges in my wikis and narrate what I had just written about. Such a process can be useful for both me (as a writer of these items) and for my readers. Yet, if I don't really "add much value" in my narration, the reader is better off just reading RecentChanges for himself, especially if I had been diligent in commenting on what I writing on my wiki entries in the first place.

I certainly have enjoyed being just fire up TodaysNotes and start writing a few thoughts -- and then expand (or contract), elaborate the narrative throughout the day. Those who are used to wikis will understand that a wiki is always open-ended, tentative -- and that frees me as a writer to write accordingly. The downside, however, is that I often don't write with as much depth or care on my wiki as I do on my blogs. When I post an entry on my weblogs, I generally consider doing so an act of publishing. Save for minor stylistic or grammatical touch-ups, I don't make any changes to the text. I might consider deleting the whole entry and noting that I'm withdrawing my post -- but I wouldn't just alter the post substantially.