Wiki's are traditionally thought of as being text-based. I'm wondering if the wiki model can be extended to audio?
Imagine taking open content such as the new book “Producing Open Source Software”[1] and putting it on a wiki so that others can modifying it. The book is already broken into sections[2]. Now imagine taking it a step further by adding audio where each section has an accompanying audio portion. Since it would be a wiki, the recording could be distributed among a number of people: no one person has to read and record the entire book. For example, imagine 9 people and each one records one chapter. Using some spidering software, you can put all the audio portions together to get the equivalent of Books-On-Tape. Also, imagine serving up the pieces via podcasting. Just thinking out loud for an upcoming road trip. It'd be easier to listen to the book than read it while driving. ;) [1] http://producingoss.com/ [2] http://producingoss.com/html-chunk/index.html Regards, - Robert http://www.cwelug.org/downloads Help others get OpenSource software. Distribute FLOSS for Windows, Linux, *BSD, and MacOS X with BitTorrent _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
