Week 5: Wikis

I occasionally use wikipedia, mainly to procrastinate. For some topics wikis can be quite a dubious source of information and it tends to attract a lot of amateur experts, so must be used with discretion. The book lover wiki was good. It's easy to see the uses this kind of technology could have for Manakau libraries; book reviews, readers advice etc and parochial types would enjoy the kind of local histories and genealogies offered by St Joseph wiki. I went on to the learning 2.0 wiki and added my favourite number 'O': "Thou wast a pretty fellow, when thou hadst no need to care for her frowning ; now thou art an O without a figure"