First things first. What the heck is a bliki?

According to the cyn.in (pronounced sign-in) website:

A bliki is a web based collaboration and publishing system that marries the concepts and benefits of a blog based publishing software and a wiki based collaboration system.

Blog: A Blog or a weblog software is a specialized form of Content Management Systems specifically designed for creating and publishing content in a chronological manner, just like a web based diary.

Wiki: A wiki is a web based application that allows its users to easily add, remove and otherwise edit and change some available content, sometimes without the need for registration. This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for collaborative authoring. The term wiki can also refer to the collaborative software itself (wiki engine) that facilitates the operation of such a website, or to certain specific wiki sites, such as an online encyclopedia like Wikipedia.

Blikis are about interactive blogging.

Interacting with a blog usually means leaving a comment at the bottom of a post. With a bliki, you can edit the original post and attach files to the page it is on. Rest assured, you can always go back to a previous post.

This happens through the magic of “automatic versioning” which creates a new copy each and every time a user updates a note, post or page.

 

 

The RSS capabilities give each user the option to publish and subscribe to notifications for different projects, groups or posts through tagging (called SlashTags here).

 

 

I recently reviewed the cyn.in bliki and was impressed with both its functionality and ease of use. It’s a neat platform which, although might appear a little foreign when you look at the initial blank screen, really picks up steam after you begin creating a few notes or posts. It also nets high marks for its refreshingly uncluttered user interface.

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