Beyond blogging: An alternative to blogging is Wiki, a collaborative way to create indexed content on one site. TWiki is a good example of this--they seem to offer the easiest and most powerful Wiki around, simple to get started with but extremely extensible. I would like to build a George Orwell Encyclopedia online and this looks like the best way to do it--put up the wiki, properly formatted, and get the community involved in adding pages. A few reasons to do this: build a permanent memory for the Orwell community, one a bit more organized than the archives of alt.books.george-orwell; give students a place to go for answers to Orwell questions; try to become the primary Orwell reference on Google. This third reason exites me the most--it is an experiment in implementing "Tipping Point" concepts. It can only get recognized (and stay recognized) if the content is sticky and it gets noticed by mavens and connectors. Seems like a worthwhile experiment.
Posted by awm at March 14, 2002 05:27 PM