Sometimes programmers, at least us pathetic ones, feel little parental about our programs. After the pregnancy of design and the labor of mock-up, there’s the moment when you get the first little glimpse of your code doing what it’s ultimately supposed to do. Programmers with emotional problems, if you’ll excuse the tautology, have reported hearing the sound of a baby crying.

Well young WagN has given its parents considerable joy recently by reaching a number of milestones. Most importantly, the kid’s getting to be fun.

We’ve been using the WagN for keeping track of contacts, minutes, agendas, todo lists, bugs, and goals (in addition to researching companies and products), and it’s way better of a time than any of those things should be. The neat part is that you can essentially structure and restructure information organically, which is where all the unintended uses are coming from.

Better still, the kid’s got lots of room to grow. We feel like the wiki / tagging combination cracks open a whole lot of territory to explore, and every new step seems to reveal more possibilities. Only a few of them are currently up at wagn.grasscommons.org, but more are coming soon. Contact us if you’re interested in an invitation to become a member of the wagn site.