After some long, and interesting conversations over several pints of beer with my friend Mike, we pondered the question: "What if yawiki allowed people to edit with HTML, JavaScript, IE - give the users full control over the presentation of a 'page' " ??? At this critical time during the evolution of wiki technology, yawiki is trying to do something very different. We both agreed that chaos would probably ensue. We came to the conclusion that content "quality" is important. However, I dont want people to end up in fights, as they do in wikipedia. This is one of the reasons I forked wikipedia. Actually, I was one of the very first forkers. In recent news, the former founder of wikipedia has decided to also "fork" wikipedia. This sent shock waves throughout the community. As with me, many were unhappy with this choice. I received alot of flame, nasty comments etc. So here we are, going down a new road - and we have alot of choices now. The multiplication of wikis on the internet "yawiki's" is essentially adding more than one point of view. This will be an interesting evolution for information because it will be impossible to police. Indeed the internet has been filled with Spam wikis. However, this yawiki will not be spam. By allowing users the freedom to alter 100% of the page, it would logically lead to spam. The only way around this is peer review. But we cant force people to review, so the design must be natural, and be reviewed "naturally". In this sense, rather than having 1 view point on a particular 'page', there may be many view points. These views should be given a way to naturally compete in my opinion. I suppose that is enough philosophical chit chat for one day.

Oh, new Word of the Week is breeze. I decided on this word while enjoying the gentle fall breeze in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.