From: Dossy (dossy@panoptic.com)
Date: Mon Jan 20 2003 - 23:09:25 MST
On 2003.01.20, Reason <reason@exratio.com> wrote:
>
> True. I wasn't thinking complete as-is cross-posting. Say, for example, that
> Wiki posts are sent to a mailing list (suitably auto-fake-quoting for
> context), or put into a bulletin board under the same scheme. Replies to
> those may or may not go back into the Wiki, depending on how you want to
> work things and whether the Wiki maintains its own comments sections for
> each entry or not.
The problem is there really is no sense of a "wiki post" -- well, a page
can be edited. So, are you suggesting to send out the entire page's
contents every time someone edits it? Even if the edit is just
correcting a typo in a single word?
Eerg. Ouch.
> Posting to a Wiki is still, topologically, a conversation. So I think
> they're viable things for some sort of inclusion in the planned grand
> tranhumanist information exchange.
Actually, I see pages in a wiki as a snapshot or moment in time
representing the collective voiced consciousness of a group of
contributors. By examining it at a specific point in time there is no
way to be certain of who contributed what, even given "signatures"
that suggest someone contributed something specific as someone else
could have edited it without subsequently signing it themselves.
Ahh, wabi sabi meets communication -- isn't it wonderful.
-- Dossy
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folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)
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