Tooo much platforms

Jaap 3:38 PM http://learnonthefly.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/2008-os-guide.jpg
Peter 7:23 PM So WordPress is the Wiki “for collaborative, unstructured intereactions, among formal and informal groups….” That sounds very like what we are doing on the Google group. Or have I got this the wrong way around and Google is the Wiki and WordPress is a blog. It all still sonds like a mashup to me. Can you say it in one sentence (preferably without using the word clouds)?
7:23 PM Currently if someone ‘invites’ me to look at the Wiki I can do so but I still have no idea how to get there from scratch on my own. I just seems to arrive at a log in site that or (viz: Btw http://washcost.wordpress.com) a public site (WASH Bost Blog – What does Bost mean?)
7:23 PM Not blogging but drowning…
Jaap 10:18 PM Hi Peter,
Peter 10:19 PM Hi
Jaap 10:19 PM Brilliant observations.
10:19 PM washcost.wordpress.com is a blog like Cor uses for Source.
Peter 10:19 PM I know I keep being told but it does not seem to stick
10:19 PM OK I get that
Jaap 10:19 PM The software for the wiki we use comes from Socialtext
Peter 10:20 PM OK
Jaap 10:20 PM Bost was a typo; should be Cost
Jaap 10:20 PM Why dont we host our ‘groups’ on the same platform (fewer passwords to remember etc)
Jaap IRC 10:20 PM Google groups have to do with e-mail
10:21 PM The same platform would be Blogger by Google …
Peter 10:21 PM But our groups are not really email are they – we get an email telling us ther eis a message and when we click on it we go to a website – a google site
Jaap 10:21 PM Anyway we did not synchronize that, but use for all the accounts the same password might help
10:21 PM I do that!
10:22 PM The e-mail you get from our wiki is a link
Peter 10:22 PM So we could have done it all on one platform – the is not a difference in concept, just in the provider
Jaap 10:23 PM The e-mail you get from our group has te complete message; but you can also go to a webaddress where you can find al messages send to the goup
10:24 PM Provider is not our concern; we do use a number of platforms: SocialText wiki, Google groups and WordPress
Peter 10:26 PM I am not criticising just clarifying – although from where I sit it seems confusing. For exmaple I haved a social text password (for socialtext .net) but it does not access our Wiki. If I get a message form the Wiki then I can go there but I can never remember how to just go there because I want to visit.
10:27 PM Add to this that Cariidad uses another WordPress site and another WordPress password for Source – and you  can see that I feel I am in revolving doors.
Jaap 10:27 PM No, I love this conversation because it shows my blank spots in using computers / Internet / Web 2.0 etc …
Peter 10:28 PM o tell me one last time how to access the Wiki (without first receiving a message).
Jaap 10:28 PM It also adstruckts that we (WSHCost-ers) have trouble working together …
10:29 PM I understand now from you that having two wiki’s … I will check \, just a second
10:33 PM The socialtext.net wiki you should dump.
Peter 10:33 PM OK
Jaap 10:34 PM Do you know your password for the wiki with the newsletter for WSHCost?
10:34 PM URL http://www.washcost.net/teamwork
Peter 10:37 PM JUst let me see if I can do it Hang on. I just got in but I am not convinced. It seemed to adjust my password to a smaller number of letters.
Jaap 10:38 PM If you are in you can change your password
Peter 10:38 PM So apparantly I do know my password.
10:39 PM I think I wioll stick with the one that worked and chuck away the other social text entry (they had different passwords which is here the confusion comes in).
Jaap 10:40 PM Good
10:40 PM Now I am going to sleep… 10.30 here
Peter 10:40 PM OK – thanks _ I will get back to editing the urban sanitation paper 9.30 here so another hour or so.
Jaap 10:40 PM Take care