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Wicki. Resistance is Futile...
| 10.05.2005
Social Computing is a term that you're going to hear more of-soon! Our primary experiences with the web, up until recently, has been a "push" experience. That is, there are web sites and we visit them. The content for the most part is static and we're driven to these sites either my marketing, interest or both. Recently, blogs have become a popular way for anyone (literally) to publish their own content and be "heard." One great differentiator of blogs is that you can leave comments, which makes the experience a little more dynamic, interactive, organic and community-centric. There are a number of popular Blog packages out there. Movable Type is Perl-based and is very flexible in what it can do but it requires an engineering degree to understand. Blogger is a more "canned" blogging package (it's the one I use) but it has limitations in customizability and scalability. A younger and more exciting form of social computing is called a Wiki. A Wiki is a simple piece of server sided code that lets people create and edit content using a standard web browser. It's so simple but it makes the possibilities mind boggling-A social computing experience that allows the publishers of contributions to be edited in addition to the content itself. The only analogy I can think of is the process of how the Borg from Star Trek communicate. It's thoughts in progress and a place where people can share and contribute ideas on the fly making the medium ever-changing. Right now, it's still in "geek" form but it's just a matter of time before it makes its way into marketing applications.
I'll be speaking about Wikis at the upcoming Museums and the Web show in February, (hopefully) but if you want to learn more, there is a MITX event being held tomorrow in downtown Boston.
posted at 5:30 PM
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4 Comments:
I love this! I never heard of a "Wicki." Tell me more...
wow i must say i am impressed. for the fac tof the technolgy and you speaking at this upcoming event. nice.
random link. check this out cool little page that shows you css type styles in real time, and how they look on differnet systems.
Here is a great example of a wiki: the Homestar Runner Wiki. As someone who actually works on Homestar Runner, it's flattering and offputting to see your work cataloged and nitpicked to the nth degree.
Rabid fans, frightening level of detail, self-policing society. Scary.
The Star Trek Borg analogy rocks!
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