http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/WikiForCollaborationWare

Thanks. I’ve read your paper before. I’ll go back and read it again. In the meantime, what is it in particular about Wikis that make them more suitable for the project environment than group blogs? Also, blogging has exploded. Are we seeing in your opinion a VHS vs Betamax thing going on here? Wikis are technincaly better, but the world is moving to blogs?

Hal

* it encourages you to put all project docs right in the docspace, whereas blogs often drive longer documents to attachments. This allows/encourages any team member to makes changes as appropriate. It also encourages breaking up longer documents into logical pieces which are more easily scanned. And a single Search returns both reference docs and blog entries.

* all such documents get cross-linked more heavily than in blogs. Likewise, blog entries can refer to a number of longer documents.

* more naturally multi-user

I’m not sure the VHS/Betamax analogy works. A single team won’t use both at the same time, but other than that I don’t see a big lock-in or networking-effect issue.