Friday iFAQ: VoodooPad
Every Friday we publish a list of inFrequently Asked Questions and answers to help you, the Crazy Apple user, get more out of your Crazy Apple products.
This week: VoodooPad, a wiki made by a deer.
Q: I want to make up news stories!
A: Whaaa! Easy there, pardner. What the heck?
Q: But Wikipedia has banned me!
A: Ah, I see now.
Q: Can the Flying Meat give me amazing Voodoo powers?
A: No. They can give you an amazing personal wiki.
Q: Where I can make up news stories?
A: I usually use a blog to do that. For that matter, so does C|Net.
Q: But I’ll have my own wiki, right? Just like Wikipedia?
A: Weeeeeeell, you’ll have a wiki, but it’s personal, see? So it’s like, only on your computer. Not out on the web.1
Q: But I can make up news, right?
A: Easy there, Citizen Kane. Yes, I suppose you could.
Q: And change the world?
A: Ummm…
Q: Or should I just keep waitin’ on the world…
A: HEY! Stop that! As long as you ask questions under my roof there will be no John Mayer song titles!
Q: Okay, I’ll try again.
A: Okay.
Q: Ahem. Okay, here goes. “Or should I just remember when I ruled the world”?
A: Convoluted, but better. Anyway, it’s a personal wiki. It’s to help you keep track of your thoughts. As the makers say, “you put your brain in it.”
Q: Okay! Done. Now what?
A: Ummm, you use it to find things you were thinking about, and, umm… use that knowledge to move forward in your life?
Q: All I found was an awesome way to finally be better than Batman.
A: Okay, we’re done here. You should go read Dinosaur Comics, you’ve got a soulmate there. I’m gonna go do that voodoo that I do so well.
Q: You’ve already used that quote.
A: No longer listening.
- Actually you can put it on the web if you enlist the aid of MobileMe or some other web server. [↩]
Um, a deer. Well OK then. Have a nice weekend.
Same time, next week.
I think I tried VoodooPad once. For some reason, it didn’t change my life.