Tinderbox and Blogs
I recently learned about a program called Tinderbox published by Eastgate Systems, Inc.
A tinderbox is a place to keep your tinder -- your kindling. Tinderbox is a place to keep your ideas....
Tinderbox is a personal content management assistant. It stores your notes, ideas, and plans. It can help you organize and understand them. And Tinderbox helps you share ideas through Web journals and web logs.
Tinderbox maps your notes as you make them. Build relationships by arranging notes, organizing them with shape and color, linking them. Tinderbox lets you record ideas quickly and keep them where you'll find them again when you need them....
Tinderbox is only available on the Macintosh, which doesn't help me (I got rid of my Mac in 2000), but it may be of interest to others. Certainly enough people are using it; many are raving about it.
Tinderbox can be used in conjunction with weblogs:
...The idea of the weblog is important: it's the essence of the Web. Individuals and small groups, communicating swiftly and directly.
Tinderbox lets you make notes easily, and a powerful environment. You don't have to talk to a server to make a note with Tinderbox. Your data is yours.
Tinderbox helps automatically index and categorize your notes. Traditional weblogs keep your old notes in musty archives, but Tinderbox can automatically arrange notes by date and by topic.
Tinderbox templates give you the power to control every aspect of your site. You control how things look. You determine what gets published now, what gets held for later, what stays private....
...Server-hosted tools like Blogger are great when you need to work with a bunch of people at different locations -- especially if they're on the road without a laptop. Use Tinderbox to organize the rest of your site, and let Blogger (or GreyMatter, Radio Userland, Movable Type, or whatever server script you like) handle the "group weblog" on the server....
Some weblog writers like to keep old items on their own pages. Others like to assemble a week of posts, or a month, into an archive. Tinderbox lets you adopt either style (or both!), tuning things exactly as you wish....
You can easily use Tinderbox to create RSS files for syndication. Tinderbox will automatically create syndication files (also called "news feeds") for you.
Tinderbox can also read RSS files from other sites, so you can present the latest headlines from related weblogs and news sites on your page, automatically and effortlessly....
A blog from a Tinderbox user can be found here.
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