Specifications

About Blogs
A blog is like an online journal. Entries are arraned chronologically with the newest
entries listed rst.
The blog and the wiki share the same simple editing toolbar and thus share a lot of
the same advantages. The biggest dierence between a blog and a wiki is that the
blog has a sense of time but the wiki doesn’t. In a blog, new content is found more
easily than older content. In a wiki, content is found by need or by navigation, rather
than by time.
Blogs are available for users and groups. Users can edit the group blogs they have
access to.
About Web Calendars
Users and groups can have web calendars:
User web calendars let you schedule private events, or send event invitations to Â
other users. Other users can’t see your web calendar.
A group web calendar is like a hallway calendar—its a very visible calendar that Â
everyone in a group can edit. It’s very good for highlighting important dates.
However, you can’t send invitations through group calendars.
Because the web calendar uses iCal server, all users who have set up their server
account in iCal will have synced calendars. Event changes made in the web calendar
are reected in iCal, and event changes in iCal are reected in the web calendar. If
you sync group web calendars, the local iCal version of the calendars are read-only.
Changes you make to the group web calendars are synced with iCal but you can’t edit
the calendars in iCal.
The web calendar is designed to simplify creating events and sending invitations. Web
calendars don’t allow dependencies, so its not good for project management where
milestones often depend on each other. It also doesn’t allow delegates, so you should
use iCal if you want to use delegates.
About Mailing Lists
Every wiki can have a logged mailing list. Email sent to the wiki’s email address is
archived in the mailing list. Unlike the wiki and blog, content in logged mailing lists
can’t be changed or commented on. However, logged emails can be tagged, and
because they each have a URL, you can link to them.
The group email address is wikiname-wiki@serverurl.
For example, if your wiki’s name is Aardvark and the URL of your wiki server is
www.example.com, the wiki email address is [e-mail].
14 Chapter 1 About Wikis, Blogs, Web Calendars, and Mailing Lists