JonesFirstLawOfWiki

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Inspired by PhilipGreenspun's tenth law :

Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.

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and recent ClayShirky on FolkSonomies http://www.corante.com/many/archives/2005/01/07/folksonomies_controlled_vocabularies.php, I hereby announce Jones's First Law of Wiki :

Any sufficiently useful SocialSoftware contains an over-restrictive, impaired, socially alienating implementation of wiki

Nice one. Forgive them, for they know not what they do :) Kind of like TamingTheOx? -

kk

Great! – ZL

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