Saturday, October 11, 2008

wikiwhacked

Wiki's are a brilliant idea. Similar to a chat room but more oganizable. Like having a real discussion with a group of people in different places and different times. Though, the presentations I've seen for them don't lend much credibility to long-term public-use wikis; I think the Wikipedia might be the best (and only ) example of one that's usable over and over by an entire population of people. Any others will simply become obsolete over time, and will be more geared to particular topics and subjects. Of the wiki's I looked at, I liked the Princeton book review one the best. I'm not sure that wikis make a better forum than, say, a simple blog community or a site such as LibraryThing or GoodReads, but whatever. I find myself in favor of mass-edited information on Wikipedia much more than I do the "mob logic" info comment I made about Delicious, though I'm not sure why. I think I simply recognize what Wikipedia is and assume others take it with a grain of salt the way I do, while Delicious is still too new for me to do that.
Hmm, curious thought I just had. I could bookmark my comics on Delicious and not have to search for them on odd computers the way I did today. . .
here goes nothin'
-Brian

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