User:Caston/BlogEntry: 2010 April 16 11:03:41 UTC

Wiki development
I haven't been blogging much lately. There have been some minor modifications. I have started adding a "more" hyperlink from each section on the front page to try to make it more user friendly in case people didn't know they could click on the heading. I tried adding an image button for more like in adciv.org but I just couldn't get it to work so text it is.

I have also been working on the table of antibiofilm agents and put up a video about honey being used to treat diabetic wounds on the feed.

I also added a video to the Teeth section from experts village posted on youtube about proper brushing technique.

Personal health
I recently ordered some Soladey eco toothbrushes from online retailer. The tooth brush does seem to be working. I have brushed twice with it so far and also was a lot more careful to brush everywhere especially parts of my teeth that I normally miss. I ended up with the gums around my wisdom teeth bleeding. I must miss that area a lot. I brushed my teeth again with the Soladey in the morning and there was still some blood but I am hoping that it will stop soon.

I feel pretty bad about how long I have been using a very substandard and slack toothbrushing technique.

BTW here is a video about the Soladey Eco

Community development and out reach
I have also been in contact with Edouard of http://www.longecity.com/

He has developed a very nice portal for the life extension scene and communities. The website also has an active topics button which is the show active forum posts from various life extension forums. When I first looked you could see forum posts from both imminst and mfoundation.org but now I only seen posts from imminst. When trying to joing mfoundation.org forums so I could post a suggestion that they start a wiki I was completely unable to register because registration had been disabled by the administration.

Rejuvepedia does have a forum but they aren't really used very much. The software is the AWC forums and there isn't a lot of work going into developing them at the moment. There is a new version that is still in alpha I believe but they might not be ready for release for quite a while at the main developer is actually now doing a lot of work on his own house.

The AWC software is worth keeping an eye on though and I could consider testing out the new software on a separate wiki installation. Mediawiki 1.16 will probably be out in not to long and I would like to update to that when it is available.

Discussions on imminst
I also recently posted a topic on the computer science section of imminst in regards to data mining.

http://www.imminst.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=40377&hl=

I was basically talking about the differences between forums and wikis and how the developed of the imminst wiki has stalled despite such an active forum presence. I suggested that the best way to get data out of the forum and into the imminst wiki rather than interrogation of posters was actually to datamine the forum in such as way that we take most of the grunt work out of sorting posts into relevant sections ready to write wiki articles on.

So far no one has replied to the post and I could really do a lot more work and research on the topic myself. Quite a few people have viewed the topic and those people are quite active on imminst so I don't think my post has fallen on deaf ears.

It is definitely a subject to follow up and blog more about and hopefully we can have some more action in this area.