Here comes Wiki
Now that you've made room for blog and RSS in your vocabulary, don't get too comfortable, because here comes wiki. Used to great effect in the 2004 Presidential elections, wiki software creates a participatory web page that allows their pages to be edited by their viewers browser. Click the edit button, and the page simply opens up, ready for your editing.
Although it is possible to require some form of reqistration to post, the whole idea is that your community trusts you, and you respect the pages and the ideas therein. In theory, this leads to the free exchange of ideas between participants. In practice, the deliberate lack of security controls leaves the pages open to problems of "kiddie spam".
How to create them, their set-up, their problems are topics of covered July 27, 2005 at the joint SDForum.org - SofTECH.org meeting. Producer Ron Lichty, co-chair of SDForum's Software Architecture and Modeling SIG, discusses the ideas surrounding this adventure in community.
Whether this type of site can survive as a set of pages open to the general public is still an open question. As an expiriment, The Los Angeles Times tried a wiki, and had to shut it down after three days after they were overwhelmed unwanted abusive posts. Within a secure community, it may be that the ease with which people can "talk" to each other will make this type of utopian page possible.
For more information on the topic, visit Softech.org
Although it is possible to require some form of reqistration to post, the whole idea is that your community trusts you, and you respect the pages and the ideas therein. In theory, this leads to the free exchange of ideas between participants. In practice, the deliberate lack of security controls leaves the pages open to problems of "kiddie spam".
How to create them, their set-up, their problems are topics of covered July 27, 2005 at the joint SDForum.org - SofTECH.org meeting. Producer Ron Lichty, co-chair of SDForum's Software Architecture and Modeling SIG, discusses the ideas surrounding this adventure in community.
Whether this type of site can survive as a set of pages open to the general public is still an open question. As an expiriment, The Los Angeles Times tried a wiki, and had to shut it down after three days after they were overwhelmed unwanted abusive posts. Within a secure community, it may be that the ease with which people can "talk" to each other will make this type of utopian page possible.
For more information on the topic, visit Softech.org
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