[p2p-research] Eating crow on Google Knol re: Jobless Recovery

[Mamading Ceesay]

On 5 July 2010 12:55, Samuel Rose <samuel.rose at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Agreed. There is far more value in retaining this content in Wikipedia
> than deleting it.
>
>
> Starting back around 2007 after the Political Economies of Peer
> Production in Nottingham, Paul Hartzog, Rick Adler and myself started
> thinking about what it would take to make a "wikipedia version 2",
> which essentially could be a way to connect close to any website into
> a distributed resource. We figured out a way to get halfway there with
> Nearlinking and interwiki links, and the "wiki net"several years ago
> in wiki communities online. It worked technically, but people drifted
> away and largely lost interest culturally. I think mostly because the
> "wiki net" simply took too much work to sustain over time. The
> approach needs automation and a sound distributed architecture.
>

Speaking as someone who got involved with WikiLinks years ago at the
behest of Lion Kimbro, I totally agree.

I'm starting to get interested in Application Wikis again, with a
particular interest in TiddlyWeb having used TiddlyWiki in the past.
What attracts me to TiddlyWeb is being able to extend it with
Python-based plugins.

-- 
Regards,
Mamading Ceesay
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