Feedwordpress wiki for users contributions
Feedwordpress is a mechanism for automating syndication of blog entries from one blog to another. I use this alongside WordpressMU to power the blogs at http://www.wikiconsulting.com
Feedwordpress is documented at http://projects.radgeek.com/feedwordpress/ and is run by the incredibly busy Charles Johnson (RadGeek). I think it would be better if Charles put a wiki for Feedwordpress at radgeek.com, and indeed I asked him to do so a few months ago, but until he does, at least people who need to use his software can collaborate with one another. You can find this wiki at http://feedwordpress.pbwiki.com/
It is a basic human need to collaborate. Cooperating with others saves us time, and helps us share our expression so at a minimum guarantees that we did what we can. Commenting on blogs does not provide the deep blending of perspectives needed for real value to be added to knowledge. In the FeedWordPress case users have asked for a forum or another means to collectively pool their time, but a wiki not only adds this but changes the sequence in which information is presented. (Actually, the password reset on the feedwordpress blog doesn’t work for me!)
Whether this Feedwordpress wiki will take off will depend on a lot of things. Whether it is seeded compellingly (including from the gems of existing content), whether people subscribe, whether people share their problems and help one another solve theirs, and what signal:noise ratio occurs on it.
We can each do our bit. Pooling our bits to be together can save us all time and energy. I hope this feedwordpresswiki will help.
