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March 28, 2005
The Enterprise Blogosphere
Posted by Ross Mayfield
InfoWorld’s coverstory is The Enterprise Blogosphere. The whole thing is wrapped up in a nice .pdf. I absolutely love this quote:
“Blogs and wikis play opposite roles,” says Martin Wattenberg, a researcher on the collaborative user experience team at IBM Watson Research Center. “Blogs are based on an individual voice; a blog is sort of a personal broadcasting system. Wikis, because they give people the chance to edit each other’s words, are designed to blend many voices. Reading a blog is like listening to a diva sing, reading a wiki is like listening to a symphony.”
And, of course, there is a great review of Socialtext.
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1. Jon Garfunkel on March 29, 2005 9:44 PM writes...
But why have two separate systems when you can combine all the values in one system? They are both publishing systems. We can already do so today. I just have a feeling that not too long from now is going to be a strange dichotomy, like motion pictures and musical recordings were before 1927.
Jon
Permalink to Comment2. Ross Mayfield on March 29, 2005 10:34 PM writes...
What are you talking about, Jon? Wiki and blog integration like Socialtext?
Permalink to Comment3. Jon Garfunkel on March 30, 2005 1:02 AM writes...
Well, I do it using open-source Drupal, and I've been calling it the civ model. If you read Civilities, pieces come via a "news" approach (they are dated; they come via RSS), but at the same time I am building a framework of ideas which make up Civilities. By this time, with 180 nodes, there's nothing new that I come up with that doesn't fit within the framework. To me, the wiki definitive article-- that is, an article which defines a term or a concept-- is merely one type of article in the civ model. I completely reject the lazy notion that all blog posts are created equal.
As it is, I am moving on passed writing and will be working more regularly on the software.
Jon
Permalink to Comment4. Ross Mayfield on March 30, 2005 2:45 AM writes...
Cool Jon, thanks for sharing.
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