Friday May 14, 2004

REWRITING HAWTHORNE

I was introduced to the idea of Wikis recently, and I have to say I was pretty fascinated by the possibilities. (For those who don’t know — I have no idea if I’m behind the curve on this one, although an informal survey reveals that no one knows what I’m talking about — a Wiki is basically a webpage editable by anyone. Anyone with a browser can change the content and re-upload it to the server.) Wikis are mostly used by development teams, and I’ve seen some literary applications, but since I have to try everything, I’ve setup LitWiki, which at the moment is just an experiment in group editing Nathaniel Hawthorne’s tale of puritanical satanism (sound like any POTUS you know?) “Young Goodman Brown.” Right now, it’s called “I Know What You Did Last Sabbath” but you can of course change that if you care to.