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Wikis for interagency cooperation

You may have seen Vinton Cerf's comments regarding wikis.  Cerf's helped many institutions along the way (Stanford University, DARPA, NASA JPL, Google) with innovative applications of technology.

From a Government Computer News interview  "GCN: How could government agencies make better use of the Internet? Have you seen any Internet-based applications from a government agency that really impressed you?

Cerf: The Geological Survey has worked to index a great deal of its data, and that makes it quite useful for a variety of applications. ... I think information sharing might be facilitated among government agencies through the use of Internet technology. Whether this information is available to the public will depend on the data. Rapid deployment of Internet services can also be helpful in disaster recovery. Wiki techniques might be very useful for interagency cooperative work."

Typepad announces Video Podcasting Support

Perhaps ASIST meeting proceedings might include such video podcasts.  http://www.podcastingnews.com/archives/2005/12/typepad_announc.html

A wiki character assasination

In a totally open posting environment, there is always a possibility that postings will be inaccurate, malicious, or slanderous.  A former Robert Kennedy administrative assistant took a flame thrower to the Wikipedia for character assassination in a recent USA Today editorial ("A false Wikipedia 'biography' " by John Seigenthaler 11/29/2005).

After much heat, the wikipedia will change the posting policies. Growing pains for Wikipedia