(2007-11-07) Bernstein Wiki Nature

Mark Bernstein contemplates Wiki nature. Part of his discomfort comes from trying to have this nature be tightly consistent across WikiTypes. Besides, my first encounter with WikiSym was a keynote about Nobitic wikis. I don't do Open-source software. One of the key themes of Neo-Victorian Computing is distrust of Collaboration; "participatory" sounds nice but great software comes from the Passion and insight of one or two creators (auteur theory), not from alliances and committees.... I propose that a fourth distinctive feature of wikis is that they are nominative: to link to something, you have only to name it (Naming Things). And, if you name something, you link to it (Link As You Think).