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Thoughts on writing, web design, and business
Secret wiki
Isn't a "secret wiki" kind of an oxymoron? The US government doesn't think so:
The office of U.S. intelligence czar John Negroponte announced Intellipedia, which allows intelligence analysts and other officials to collaboratively add and edit content on the government's classified Intelink Web much like its more famous namesake on the world wide web.
A "top secret" Intellipedia system, currently available to the 16 agencies that make up the U.S. intelligence community, has grown to more than 28,000 pages and 3,600 registered users since its introduction April 17. Less restrictive versions exist for "secret" and "sensitive but unclassified" material.
Talk about the mother lode for hackers!
Seriously, though, a good wiki system draws on a vast pool of user knowledge for content and tracks user updates, which helps to self-correct any errors and/or false information. Seems like that's what the US intelligence community needs these days.
Blog roll
» Adaptive Path Where you'll find articles about the "bleeding edge" of web design (BTW, these are the guys who coined the term AJAX).
» A List Apart All the cool web designers read Zeldman's online mag.
» Bob Bly A legend in the copy writing profession.
» Content Wrangler Lots of technical writing tips and tricks.
» Copyblogger One of the most prolific tutorial-based copy writing blogs around.
» Jakob Nielsen Guru and cover model for web usability.
» Meryl.net The "Content Maven" brings you valuable copy writing tips and insights on the writing life.
» Seth Godin Marketing guru for the new economy.
» Signal vs. Noise Official blog of 37signals, the web design company to which all small firms aspire.
» Web Standards Project Can I get an "Amen?"
» Writing White Papers Primary focus is on white papers, but also has general copy writing and marketing tips.
» Zeldman One of the first web standards evangelists.