[Hack Athon]-s were held at JotSpot and [Atlass Ian] ([Conflu Ence] Wiki Engine) to spur Innovat Ion (and give Engin Eer-s a sense of Engage Ment outside the [Block And Tackle] of their normal days).

A couple of the [Jot Spots] deliverables were:

• a Touch Graph view of the wiki graph

• shared real-time co-editing (though alas not Co Outlining), locked at the paragraph level.

Update: Kathy Sierra on [Squirrel Eiserloh] and the [Ad Lib Game Design Society]. The idea can be mapped to virtually anything for which you want to encourage maximum creativity, innovation, and most importantly... getting something done. While it may be a Big Deal to start your own FooCamp/BarCamp-style self-organizing conference, the total immersion "ad-lib jam" model is something we can all start in our home town, wherever that may be... A big part of what makes this work is that you are not in your normal environment. No kids, no chores, no I-should-be-doing-something-else. More importantly, it's the energy of the other participants that makes this so effective. You know exactly what I'm talking about if you've ever been in a highly engaged group where everyone's really cranking and you can almost feel the brain power and creativity rippling out of each person's head like WiFi. The [ALGDS] seems oriented toward all the attendees working together on a single idea, but Kathy seems to be discussing just having people working independently in the same place/time maybe in the same genre.

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