WhatIsaBliki #

Created: June 7, 2020 3:15 PM URL: https://martinfowler.com/bliki/WhatIsaBliki.html I’ve been watching the blog scene develop for a while, and it’s impossible to not want to join in. For a start the name, as my colleague Mike Two puts it, “blog sounds like something I should pay a physician to remove”. Beyond the name, however, there’s the very ephemeral nature of blog postings. Short bursts of writing that might be interesting when they are read - but quickly age. And I do like the fact that blogs make it easy to see what’s really changed recently - thanks to the hooks into RSS and aggregators. So I decided I wanted something that was a cross between a wiki and a blog - which Ward Cunningham immediately dubbed a bliki. Like a blog, it allows me to post short thoughts when I have them.