Difference between revisions of "TwittiWikker"

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So [[Twitter]] seemed to get traction partly as a cult and partly as a shared public blackboard for other web apps. But Twitter is like a stack, right? Doesn't make much of a blackboard ... and, well, Wiki is more like an incestuous hash - lots of objects with references to each other. So ...  
 
So [[Twitter]] seemed to get traction partly as a cult and partly as a shared public blackboard for other web apps. But Twitter is like a stack, right? Doesn't make much of a blackboard ... and, well, Wiki is more like an incestuous hash - lots of objects with references to each other. So ...  
  
Let's consider a wiki whose pages can contain nothing but one link, external or internal, doesn't matter. Internal URLs can't serve any content - they can only ultimately forward a user to some source of external content. Let users define content filters communally using the wiki's structure itself so that the spammers, porners, and flamers can't get traction. And restrict the size of a piece of content to one sentence.
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Let's consider a wiki whose pages can contain nothing but one sentence. In order to say something subtantial, [[People]] [[Would]] [[Use]] [[WikiWords]] [[For Almost Everything]]. Which would more incestuously intertwingle the content than ever before. Participants would have no choice but to continuously refactor. The meanings of some text would stabilize while others would oscillate or flutter chaotically ...
 
 
In order to say something subtantial, [[People]] [[Would]] [[Use]] [[WikiWords]] [[For Almost Everything]]. Which would more incestuously intertwingle the content than ever before. Participants would have no choice but to continuously refactor. The meanings of some text would stabilize while others would oscillate or flutter chaotically ...
 
  
 
Just [[Thinking Out Loud]]. Hey that'd be a better wikiname for this than TwittiWikker ...
 
Just [[Thinking Out Loud]]. Hey that'd be a better wikiname for this than TwittiWikker ...
  
 
Okay, you pile on the VC and I'll start hiring ex-googlers ;)
 
Okay, you pile on the VC and I'll start hiring ex-googlers ;)

Revision as of 16:18, 8 June 2007

An idea for an engaging AboutUs WikiProcess. Maybe already been done?

So Twitter seemed to get traction partly as a cult and partly as a shared public blackboard for other web apps. But Twitter is like a stack, right? Doesn't make much of a blackboard ... and, well, Wiki is more like an incestuous hash - lots of objects with references to each other. So ...

Let's consider a wiki whose pages can contain nothing but one sentence. In order to say something subtantial, People Would Use WikiWords For Almost Everything. Which would more incestuously intertwingle the content than ever before. Participants would have no choice but to continuously refactor. The meanings of some text would stabilize while others would oscillate or flutter chaotically ...

Just Thinking Out Loud. Hey that'd be a better wikiname for this than TwittiWikker ...

Okay, you pile on the VC and I'll start hiring ex-googlers ;)



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