[topicmapmail] Representing a person's world view as a topic map

[Denver Gingerich]

As I write articles on my blog to express my views, I am constantly
reminded of the inadequacy of static articles to show relations
between different concepts.  Tagging articles can help, but it
requires the author to be very diligent in selecting the correct tags
and tagging previous articles as new tags are added.  Since each of
the blog articles are essentially a piece of my world view and they
are often quite interconnected, it would seem to make sense to arrange
my ideas in a topic map instead of a list of articles (not that I
would never write articles; they would be linked from the topic map).
By doing this, I would allow people to see how different topics are
linked in my head and how I arrived at certain conclusions (by
analyzing the sequence of topics leading up to a particular
assertion).  It also allows me to create an increasingly complete
representation of my world view over time as I see new links in my
thinking that aren't represented in the topic map.

Has anyone attempted to use topic maps to represent their world view
before?  If so, what sorts of tools have you used?  Are there
particular things to watch out for?

A large part of what guides my thoughts are articles that I read in my
daily perusal of various news sites.  As a result, it would be very
nice if I could quickly add a URL to my world view topic map when I
see something that is relevant to how I think.  The key here is
"quickly"; if I have to edit an XML file by hand, it is unlikely that
I will add a lot of these links to my topic map.  Ideally, I would be
able to login to my web server and use some sort of GUI tool (maybe a
Java applet) to add the URL with links (edges in the map) to the
relevant topics.  What tools would you recommend for doing this?

Denver