rejon.org is Jon Phillips.

Ok, I came up with an idea today while shaving. I realized when using socialtext today, as now I’m on the ISEA 2006 Publications Committee and Steve Dietz added me to the project writing space, that basicaly, there is no reason why wiki pages can’t automatically output to multiple formats. I’m serious…

Really, documentation should be written on wiki’s and then there should be auto-converters to docbook xml from wiki syntax. Then, why stop at this? There should also be pdf, svg, etc, output from the wiki page.

We need this! I need this! Does this already exists? Aha…there is proposal for this to exist. Honestly, I might channel all my dev. energy into getting this up! Really, this would rule beyond ruling…this would take collaborative editing of text on the web to another level. This would allow for scholars to write papers using wikimedia and then convert to so many different formats.

I’m so into docbook. It is so cool to have your writing and then different converters to convert it to ps, pdf, etc…

Inkscape’s tutorials are in docbook format and are converted to html for the web and svg for shipping with Inkscape!

The reason I’m thinking of this is that I’m writing some papers and I forgot the power of collaborative editing! I also no the past pitfalls of collaborative editing using a wiki — this is just after I found Distributive Writing Zone, my old writing wiki, in pieces on the newly revived cabbage server.

Is anyone into helping realize this?

The other thing would rule is easy ability to write docbook with OpenOffice.org.

I don’t care about SXW or the new OpenDocument format as much as I care about having docbook…I mean, you can auto-process your footnotes! You can auto-style your docs! It is amazing!

I’m adding this to my todo list.

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New blogs I need to subscribe to of interesting ppl. working in social software:

Nancy White: http://www.fullcirc.com/weblog/onfacblog.htm

http://www.corante.com/getreal/

http://ross.typepad.com/

http://radio.weblogs.com/0110772/

Stuart Henshall, http://www.henshall.com/blog/

http://www.socialbeasts.com/

http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/

http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/

http://radio.weblogs.com/0121664/

http://jade.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/cdb/2005/08/24/conversations/

http://phdweblogs.net/

http://planetmath.org/

salon blog posts on social networking and blogs: http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/stories/2003/05/13/blogsBloggingTableOfContents.html#04