Matt’s post got me remembering coming home from college and seeing some TV Terrorism back in the late 1980s. For just a few seconds, Max Headroom appeared on the TV screen (not the actual TV show), interrupting some regularly scheduled programs. My recollection was that it happened twice, once to PBS (before Doctor Who was [...]
LA Disaster response wiki
This wiki probably has a little more play than the Defra site. I particularly like the idea of a Giant Turtles invading L.A., although the author (the WikiSysop) was really referring to environmental changes leading to some imbalance detrimental to humans.
Defra and the LA Times
On the surface, the Defra wiki experiment in the UK is another demerit for wikis and fodder for those that view the idea of open authorship an inevitable mistake. Like the LA Times experiment in communal reporting before it, Defra was doomed to failure even as it launched. However, a closer look might reveal two [...]
Why haven’t more people heard of WebLab?
In the late 1990s, I had the privilege of participating in some special online forums. Created by WebLab, the first forum was called Reality Check and was a response, primarily, to the partisan anger over the Clinton impeachment. WebLab developed a kind of forum called a Small Group Dialogue, which places a few simple limitations [...]
Open wikiness
There is a neat innovation that is going to happen with the German Wikipedia (if it hasn’t already). The engineered response to vandalism is going to give the community a new weapon: Version Flagging.
In Wikipedia, it is not uncommon for controversial articles to be subject to edit wars or vandalism. When the problem gets too [...]
Corporate Wikis
One of the clear interests for the wiki community is use of the medium within corporations. Christian Wagner presented findings from a survey of 168 participants. This was part of a larger project, and this particular survey (from the Fall 2005) targeted corporate wiki users.
The motivations for participation in a corporate wiki are similar to [...]