Sunday, November 18, 2007

Blogs and Wikis again

Just finished reading The Best Software Writing I, edited by Joel Spolsky (Apress, 2005).

On pp. 197-198, I read of an idea of running an instant messenger and a wiki in parallel with a conference or conference. The link is: http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html, about halfway down (search for "modes") Each presenter could have her or his slides on the wiki, and interesting questions and comments from the real-time chat could be added. The wiki would then become an annotated proceedings.

With big-enough screens, you could see everything: instant-messenger chatroom, wiki, and external reference with browsing history.

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