<![CDATA[Gawker: Wikis]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: Wikis]]> http://gawker.com/tag/wikis http://gawker.com/tag/wikis <![CDATA[Penguin Books Proves The Entire Internet Can't Write A Novel]]> Before inviting the web to create a collaborative novel using a wiki in 2007, Jeremy Ettinghausen asked, "Can a community write a novel?" The answer is yes but a terrible one! A year later the Penguin publisher told researchers at De Montfort University (Penguin's partner in the project), "It's the best thing I've ever done...but I would never do it again." Which means "The book was awful but I'm not going to insult the 1500 people who wrote it for me." Of course no one expected the novel to be any good — the excerpt below is about as terrible as one would guess. That's why this was a great project for Penguin. More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=387731&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Careful whose emails you enter into your PBwiki — they might get spammed]]> A tipster tells us PBwIki — an enterprise collaboration site used by companies such as Cisco, AT&T and Citi — mines the content its customers upload for email addresses to spam.
I got an email from pbwiki even though I wasn't signed up for any kind of a mailing list or anything, so I emailed them about it. They only had my email address because it was the content in a wiki hosted with pb wiki and they dodged the question and just talked more about the content of the email. They're definitely helping themselves to all the data in their user's business wikis,
PBwiki founder David Weekly denies the charge entirely and tells us: "PBwiki does not have any scripts to go through private wikis and scrape for email addresses." Update: In the comments, Weekly calls this story "bullshit of the finest and legally actionable kind." More »
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