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February 25, 2004
Wicked Good Wikis - New Column At Darwin
Posted by Stowe Boyd
My February "Social Commentary" column has been published at Darwin Magazine, called Wicked (Good) Wikis.
"I recently attended a workshop on "Working Communities" that was developed and led by Full Circle Associates. The workshop experience was itself worthy of commentary, but the thing that I really came away with was the impact of a collaborative, social technology that we used prior to, during and now following the workshop itself: a Wiki.
Although I had been exposed to Wikis as a casual reader of websites like the Wikipedia (which is the largest, and perhaps most ambitious, Wiki in the world — attempting to capture encyclopedia entries on everything), I had not had the opportunity to work with a large group collaborating with the medium. My eyes have been opened; and in the jargon of my Boston boyhood, I now think "Wikis are wicked" (which means they are good)."
Note: the Wiki technology we used was from
Socialtext, led my by buddy Ross Mayfield, who is one of the
Many2Many bloggers here at Corante.
To read the full piece, click here
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