(2003-12-02) Dent Warp Wiki Name

Chris Dent on his Warp experiment as an alternative Wiki Name approach. It was inspired, in part, by systems such as Wiki and EveryThing2 but is intentionally much simpler. Those systems are cumbersome because they were designed to do something. Warp was never designed to do anything other than screw around. It turns out, however, to make a nice Glossary engine for a project that has something to with HyperText, authorship, thought augmentation, etc... That linking is functionally similar to Wiki linking, but because it is "normal" words that are being linked, the linking is a bit more fecund and the connections between word use and definition less clear... (Context, contra Free Link) My switch over to Wikis and a Purple Numbers oriented universe is an acknowledgment that there needs to be, at least some of the time, some guidance and structure if there is to be progress... I have to admit that I'm a little let down by this realization. I'd like to exist in a universe where semi-random noodling is more available as a legitimate pursuit. I had a teacher who called Genius the ability to draw connections between apparently distant ideas (Intertwingularity).