Begin Satire that is Satirical and not to be taken seriously by anyone but a total moron:

Ah, what a wonderful thing it is to have an epiphany. There you are, just minding your own business (or, at least your colleages' business) when all the sudden something truly wonderful dawns on you. At that moment, some part of your life changes and you realize, like the mold growing on the last yellow region of a stale banana in the Hinterlands of your fridge, that things are ripe for change. Those comfortable old notions and familiar old adages we've been telling ourselves for the past week, month, year, decade, or period of time it takes to write a dissertation were all wrong, and we're moved enough to move on.

It's been a while since we talked about WebQuests here, but I happened upon this presentation calling for integrating WebQuests with blogs and wikis. WebQuests come out of the field of education and invoke Bloom's taxonomy with the taskonomy. I gather that they're mostly used in K-12, but an organization I worked with one summer on an administrative assistantship was trying to deploy WebQuests in humanities classrooms at UTK. If anyone here has used them, post a comment and let us know how they worked out.

Yes, I see it, Charlie. :-P There's a /. post today with Q/A from the founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales. The post is SOLID GOLD, and a must for every would be wiki-warrior. Some of the more interesting bits for rhet/comp people:

Was wondering if you view the Wikipedia as a competitor or an additional tool compared to a World Book or an Encyclopedia Britannica?

Jimmy Wales:
I would view them as a competitor, except that I think they will be crushed out of existence within 5 years.

Jonathon Delacour recently wrote about his wiki epiphany. I find what he says immensely interesting because he explains why he was resistant to wikis at first: his "antipathy towards most kinds of collective activity" and general distrust of groups as ominous enforcers of confining norms. I wonder if this is why a lot of people in rhetoric and composition are not quite as open-minded when it comes to wikis as they are to other technologies such as weblogs. I have, up to this point, assumed that people weren't all that interested in wikis because there isn't yet a solid body of research making the case for wikis, showing the "value-added" to composition pedagogy, but perhaps many in our field share the assumptions about groups to which Delacour formerly adhered. Matt's probably thought a lot about this topic and will hopefully comment here. :)

Delacour's post made me think of The Wisdom of Crowds, which seems a good complement to his post.