Wikis are certainly quick as opposed to the unit in HTML I had to struggle through at uni. Then I did a course in Microsoft FrontPage - FrontPage is a WYSIWYG editor and web site administration tool which was quicker at producing a web page but still tedious. But now we have wikis which are relatively easy to set up and publish to the www and it means that anyone can add to the website so created. It is a digital tool for collaberation which has many benefits for corporate and private entities.
Wikis are in the news right now namely the Wikileaks about which Ben Macintyre commented in The Times on 02/12/2010 - " In the age of paper, no one individual would have been able to carry, let alone leak, such a vast quantity of information. But what would once have required a fork-lift truck can now be moved with a single USB memory stick."
(1994 !! how come I'm only discovering wikis now in 2010?)
ReplyDeleteExactly what I thought.
With the current to news reported over the media on the wikileaks, one can't help feeling more and more insecured in the click-click high-tech world.
ReplyDeleteFrontPage = tedious *tick*
ReplyDeleteAt least with all the media coverage on wikileaks there a lot more people are discovering wikis and what they are about.
ReplyDeleteI agree linda! I didnt know that mally, very interesting! thanks!
ReplyDeleteHi love your blog. I really love the premise of it, meandering and life in the slow lane. Somone is currently dropping things and talking loudly, meandering sound lovely.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Linda, great blog Mally:)
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