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    !WebLogs (blogs) and !WikiWiki (wiki) span two extremes of authorship.  In doing so they touch upon issues central to the nature of collaboration.

    At the personal extreme is the blog.  Blogging is charcterised by
    the admixture of the personal voice and viral attribution.  Blogging
    is made possible by the formal and mechanical: attribution through
    !URLs, and publishing through HTTP.  Considered as a whole, the
    consequent written structure is best described as *mycelial* ---
    like the filamentous growth from which fungus develops.  Blogs touch
    all parts of the web by rampant linkage, feed one another through
    the mechanics of RSS syndication, and are made up of a protoplasm of
    intensely personal musings.

    At the collective extreme are wiki.  Wiki subtract from blogging the
    temporal organisation of the journal, and its heightened personal
    aesthetic.  Wiki add to blogging the liberty for all to edit, and
    the automatic generation of pages and hyperlinks according to a
    simple naming scheme.  Again the constituents are mechanical, but
    the consequents are beyond organic.  Where blogging is mycelial, the
    best wiki represent the fruiting fungus --- generating structure
    from detritus.  In wiki, the personal voice is submerged into the
    collective whole and the product is an organisational memory.

    <u>Methodology</u><br>
    This project requires that the participants immerse
    themselves in collective writings.  This includes the construction
    of a hypertextual system administration manual, and the performance
    of several intensive seminar courses.

    <u>New Ground</u><br>The structure in wiki and blog are manifest in the
    reading and writing.  Critical to this process is an intimacy with
    the operation of names and parts.  Participants in this project are
    developping new schema for naming, and in doing so creating new
    organisational memories attuned to SIAL interests.

    It is likely that SMS will ultimately have a greater global
    impact than the web.  Complexity need not be a hallmark of
    innovation.  Critical to the success of SMS was the freedom to
    define new languages under strong constraints (160 character
    messages).  In order that collective entities, such as large scale
    design projects, amplify their intelligence they require collective
    languages.  Wiki and blog are hothouses for the development of these
    collective languages.

-- AndrewBurrow