Confirming my pretentious nature to all, I proposed cold decorated trout in wine aspic from Julia Child's "From Julia Child's Kitchen" [ISBN 0-394-71027-4] as a contribution to the great Betty Blogger picnic. I went throught the entire list and did not find any fish (or seafood) on the list. Maybe raw oysters would have been another idea -- just don't litter the site with discarded shells.
I found the PBWorks experience very easy. What I'm not sure about is when the wiki tool is more appropriate than the Google Docs toolkit. I can see using the wiki tool when you want to open info to everyone for updating or modification in a simple document. By contrast the Google Docs tool seems more appropriate when you have a limited number of people working on a more sophisticated sort of document -- text with word processing features, a spreadsheet or a presentation for projection.
I'm not sure whether I will be using the wiki facility. For the moment, the collaborative tools of Google Docs seem more relevant; they seem to be designed for group editing and development of documents. Once I and others have a document, we could use the blog tools to have others comment on what we have proposed.
With a wiki (and maybe I have not grasped all the ins-and-outs of the tool) it would seem most appropriate for collection of information about which there is limited dispute. It would work well if contributors are adding information (such as additional things to bring to a picnic) but it might not be so good if the participants have differing views to express and attack the text written by others.
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