One of the things on my mind lately has been thinking of ways to get people to contribute their own selective filtering of information to cooperative communities. Now let me put that in English: I want to benefit from everything that all of you read.
My favorite idea for this is to create a semi-structured database with a web interface, and I'm exploring that idea with some serious interest. But for the time being, I've created a free wiki where any of us can add annotated links to books, blogs, magazine articles, web sites, databases, videos, flash animations, etc.
The idea is that if a group of curious people from multiple perspectives started organizing an annotated reading list, the result could be quite informative.
Anyone is free to add links and summaries, and honestly, the thought of being able to read a wiki with suggested links from people like Dewey Sasser, Tim Schmoyer, Paul Lukasik, John Sloop, Ad Ingle, Janet Edens, Pam Morris, hue, my mom, etc., is really pretty intriguing. So I shoot another arrow in the air...
Interesting. Let me take a look. Hopefully from time-to-time I'll actually be able to contribute! There should be beer though. Very cold beer.
Posted by: Pam | Sunday, December 17, 2006 at 20:48
I'm pretty sure this will fail if you don't revisit it from time to time and encourage xarkers to contribute.
Posted by: Tim | Sunday, December 24, 2006 at 13:05
I like that the reading list has been sidebar'd below recent comments.
I'm disappointed that the only contributers so far have been Dan and I.
Posted by: Tim | Tuesday, January 02, 2007 at 18:08
Man, I'd like to post what I'm reading now but I think it's got a pretty limited appeal.
Title: Modern Christian Thought Vol. I: The Enlightenment and the 19th Century.
Add the snail like pace I'm reading, and I should post to the wiki by 2015 or so.
Posted by: ben | Tuesday, January 02, 2007 at 20:44