Are wikis still cool, now that their novelty has worn off? I guess so--the hype just won't go away. Wikis are the future of the net. It's Web 2.0. It's the electric toothpick and Ferrari's answer to the RV. It's how the next presidential election will be almost won (but a good book deal will result). It's a lean, mean, suicite machine for researchers the world over. Even loudmouth luddites are thinking twice about slamming Wikipedia in their Joyce classes. Fortunately, a wiki is only as good as its contributing members, the wisdom of its crowds...Ten million wikipedians can't be wrong, can they? I mean, look how great the Neitzsche page is! And that Thoreau never looked so useful! That herd mentality is good for something after all, eh?

In wikispace, there is no irony...

A charming flood the wiki seems
But in between those data streams
One joins the living organism
And leaves behind cold solipsism.