On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 12:35:51PM +0000, Leon Brocard wrote: > Earle Martin sent the following bits through the ether: > > > If this interests you, you can find it at http://grault.net/grubstreet/ . > > Dipsy knows more than grubstreet. Why the wiki?
* Dipsy has a 400 character factoid limit. Grubstreet doesn't. * Grubstreet has (some) revision control and history. Dipsy doesn't. * Grubstreet's easy to edit. Dipsy isn't- the s// stuff is much more limited than full Perl regexen and there are all sorts of nasty gotchas with stopwords. * Dipsy is unfocussed. Grubstreet has a clear goal- documenting London. * Grubstreet is accessible via the Web. Dipsy is designed for IRC, which less people use. The web interface is still somewhat cumbersome (and slow). * Links in Dipsy are ugly. Links in Grubstreet can be made pretty. (That's ignoring the fact that intra-factoid links are limited in dipsy to (see factoid x).) Um, there are probably more if I put my mind to it. But hey, that'll do. -- :: paul :: the future has been and gone
