A WikiWiki World
May 21, 2003
The New York Times has an article about Wikis: (0000QJ)
I like this part: (0000QL)
The creative anarchy of the wiki is the philosophical inverse of conventional corporate groupware software. Groupware's highly structured rules and processes do not always reflect the way people really work. Employees often ignore costly corporate-sanctioned software and revert to informal social networks The creative anarchy of the wiki is the philosophical inverse of conventional corporate groupware software. Groupware's highly structured rules and processes do not always reflect the way people really work. Employees often ignore costly corporate-sanctioned software and revert to informal social networks -- whether simply e-mail or impromptu water-cooler discussions. (0000QM)
Elsewhere in the article they mention SocialText and their product that apparently tries to bridge the gap between traditional office software and Wikis with an integrating suite of stuff. (0000QN)
Done right (loosely coupled) such a thing could be quite cool. Done wrong (too many features, too much prediction of what a user will or should be doing with the integration, too many constraints on data reuse) such a thing ends up as a monolithic beastie. (0000QO)
Nodes in a network--people, tools, info--bobbing in a moving sea. (0000QP)
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