This was a lot of things in one day! I'm going to have to stay caught up now until the end. Wikis ... oh so simple and yet oh so complicated. Seems like this can be as easy or as hard as you make it. I really enjoyed reading other people's favorites and exploring the links (especially the restaurant menus--I'm going to have to check out Five Fifty Three-- I love brunch!!). Adding your own links is pretty simple, deceptively simple actually. If you've got this blogging thing down, editing a wiki is pretty much the same. No wonder there is so much useless information on wikipedia!! Despite all the hype, before these two "things" I never really understood the term "wiki" and so was not aware of exactly why wikipedia is evil (although I thoroughly believed it as I was trained). But if editing and adding information is as easy as blogging. . . I'm not sure I can count on the intelligence or the integrity of the general public enough to believe anything I read on wikipedia. Wasn't there something ridiculous about Hendersonville on there a few months ago? Something about the town being overrun by apes?
So, like I said in my last post, wikis seem most useful as a website to collect subjective information (like compiling lists of community favorites). It's great to be able to share opinions, but maybe we should leave the encyclopedia facts to the experts.
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