Martin, we have keepers of the wiki. Most successful social software aroung -- facebook. Arguably a CMS. But as to the wiki, I say ... delicious. :-)
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 5:41 PM, Martin Langhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Carol Lerche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The reactions to my post remind me of the story of the lumberjacks > > Fantastic story. However, in practice a CMS is often inferior to a > wiki in that it appoints "keepers". The cook amongst the lumberjacks > has to cook daily and cannot decide not to feed a particular > lumberjack. The keepers of the CMS can get antagonistic, or just > ignore their duties, and that just kills community collaboration. > > Same with CVS and SVN - the centralisation spawns politics. > Distributed control is the right thing -- for all its flaws, the wiki > *social dynamic* rules -- you get lots of contnet, perhaps a bit > disorganised, and a thriving community around it. CMSs are > hierarchical and mere observation shows what they do to community. > > All the observations that Linus Torvalds (in various flamerwars :-) ) > has made on the social and political flaws of CVS and SVN apply > squarely to classic CMSs. Clay Shirky's "Designing social software" > essay is also relevant here. > > cheers, > > > m > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect > - ask interesting questions > - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first > - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff > -- "The water won't clear up 'til we get the hogs out of the creek." -- Jim Hightower
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