Shel Holtz, o.a. bekend van de podcast For Immediate Release, vraagt zich af waarom op dit moment zoveel aandacht is voor de weerstand tegen webloggen. Waarom niet ook eens kijken wat er op dit gebied over wikis te zeggen is?

The Wiki BacklashWhile there’s ample reporting these days about the blogging backlash, I’m not reading much about the concurrent backlash against wikis.

Yet as the blogging skeptics and critics find their voice, wikis are getting bound up in the discussion. For example, a post expressing dismay about IBM’s employee blogging initiative, “The PC Doctor” also takes a swipe at the wiki IBM used to set its employee blogging policies. …

Mr. Ed makes several assertions in his post without troubling himself with any supporting evidence. For example, he writes, “The sad reality is that Wikis are often just a pretext for procrastination” and “…the Wiki becomes a dumping ground for fragmented and incomplete files, textual sound-bites and aborted attempts to catalogue.”

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Het eind van het verhaal:

There’s nothing new about the notion of a communication tool poorly applied. From the business perspective, there will be excellent examples of wikis and blogs-and examples that will make you cringe. Most of the time, planning will be the difference. There’s nothing inherently good or bad about the tools themselves.

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