Friends,
Been following this conversation. What do we hope for from a wiki
that will be different than what we hoped for in a blog?
So far, we seem hard pressed to maintain an effective, well
structured communication cycle in a simple format such as email.
We're not likely to do better on a wiki.
This points to a problem of AACORN that I can't answer. It seems like
only a short while ago that some of us were sitting around in
Copenhagen working on the web site -- our content never got filled
in. We got a list and that works well enough for conversations and
CFPs. Then we had a blog -- total disaster. Now a wiki. Why?
AACORN shows a pattern that suggests we may not be suited to distance
work. We do well in person and in print, but we have not found a
dynamic tone in email or on the net. It seems to me that a wiki will
not solve this. I take the clumsiness of our list communication as a
proxy for something else -- and I don't think we'll find the answer
to what's missing in a new technological workaround.
If we cannot generate a robust conversation in the simplest medium
there is -- an email discussion list -- will we do better in another
medium?
Why do we need another technical approach? If there is an answer,
I'll welcome it and I'll take part. If there is no answer, I suggest
that the innovative solution is _not_ to spend the time setting up a
wiki demands, but to stay with the list and find a way to enliven our
interaction here.
Yours,
Ken
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