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May 4, 2004
Darknet: JD Lasica's experiment in distributed editing
Posted by Clay Shirky
JD Lasica is working on a book called
Darknet: Remixing the Future of Movies, Music and Television, and he's put it up on a socialtext wiki for group editing, and he makes an interesting distinction between his current use of the wiki and his planned future use of a weblog:
This is an experiment in trust. Feel free to dive in and make all the changes you think are warranted. I've opened this up as a public wiki, rather than a private space. Feel free to link to this main page from your blog, though I'll also ask at this early stage that people not excerpt material or dissect any of the material in detail because we're not at the public discussion point yet.
At a later date, I'll post a considerable amount of material from the bookas well as a great deal of material not included in the bookand at that time we'll open it up to the blog community. But for now, this wiki is set up only for collaborative editing and nothing else.
So the wiki is "comer here and edit" and the blog is for "let me send it out for distributed comments." Will be interesting to see how that transition goes.
Also on the wiki front, Common Craft has a very nice
description of wikis in plain english:
The sites content comes from the users of the wiki. *This is a defining element of wikis*: the users are responsible for the direction and content of the wiki web site over time. Everyone that uses the wiki has the opportunity to contribute to it and/or edit in the way that they see fit. This allows a wiki to change constantly and morph to represent the needs of the users over time. Wikis grow to represent the community of users.
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