“Edit me” is a great phrase, evocative of the Fonzi-esque injuction: “Eat me…”, as well as the opportunity Alice in Wonderland was given when she found the bottle labeled “Drink me.”
Relevance? It’s a wiki thing…
Jerry Michalski is interviewed by the Economist (Podcast here). Jerry thinks that we’re in the “Model T” era of new media tools. Over the next few years we’ll be figuring out how to sort through the flood of information that has resulted from our empowerment. Today, we still need training on the tools, we need to explain what a Wiki is, and how it works. Tomorrow?
Jerry talks a little about the “revert wars” at Wikipedia and observes that “Fixing a Wiki is easier than vandalizing a Wiki.”
The “quantum personal energy” release of the impassioned authentic voices in the blogosphere are contrasted with “Newtonian media.” (“Old media doesn’t want us to have a memory. When we store information we break their business model.”) Highly personalized and individual blogs are compared to the cooperative and anonymizing experience of working on a Wiki.
Ward Cunningham’s invention of the Wiki is acknowledged.
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