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10/30/2002 Entry: "wiki makes an appearance"

Susan Solomon at ClickZ Today thinks most blogs are just self-indulgent. She might be right. But does it matter? It isn't for me to tell someone else they're wasting their time with their writing, and nobody is forced to read them. But there are some gems out there (including Bene Diction, from whom this link comes) and I'm all for encouraging as many as possible to have a go at sharing their thoughts. The really interesting bit of her article for me comes at the end:

In the meantime, I'm told the latest killer app is no longer the blog, but the wiki ("wikiwiki" is Hawaiian for "quick" and is often abbreviated to "wiki"). Wikis are collaboratively edited discussion boards. Editing other peoples' work is perfectly acceptable on the wiki, as is adding a new train of thought. It's an intriguing idea, although the wiki I visited displayed the hallmark of Web users who have little to say: a picture of someone's cat.