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Some links to follow up on regarding wiki background

Found these links mainly through Ecyrd's site. No time to read them all now.

Brief introduction at MSNBC:

At first a Wiki (named for “wiki wiki,” Hawaiian for quick) seemed to me to be like a metablog without the handy linear organization. But seeing it that way misses the point, which is collaboration.

Weblog central: WHAT’S A WIKI?

Some background material on the wiki phenomenon:

Lately there's been a spate of posts in the blog world about wikis. I've gathered up and made a first pass at organizing the ones I've encountered into what might be a reasonable order (based on my current level of ignorance).

Mc Gee's musings: Getting up to speed on wikis

Clay Shirky gives a practical example:

And the Great and the Good of the weblog syndication world are doing this work...in a wiki. There are lots of good reasons for using a wiki, of course, instead of a trackbacked weblog conversation. Though both weblogs and wikis support conversational patterns, weblogs are "conversation as published comments" while wikis are "conversation as shared editing." Weblogs tend towards polarized or divergent views, while wikis tend towards convergent ones, which is just what you want for a conversation around standards.

Clay Shirky: RSS, Echo, Wikis, and Personality Wars

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