(2003-05-19) Nytimes Socialtext

The Ny Times covers SocialText as a wedge into Wiki For CollaborationWare. Semper Wi! The creative anarchy of the wiki is the philosophical inverse of conventional corporate GroupWare software. Groupware's highly structured rules and processes do not always reflect the way people really work. Employees often ignore costly corporate-sanctioned software and revert to informal Social Network-s - whether simply e-mail or impromptu water-cooler discussions. Ward Cunningham, who created the first wiki in 1995 and is the author of "The WikiWay," a manifesto and how-to manual published by Addison-Wesley, says a wiki is a medium for connecting an electronic community and allows "idea keeping."