Comments on: #bcto09 on bookish communities

By: #BCTO09 – Summary | Random Musings

#BCTO09 – Summary | Random Musings — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 02:11:48 +0000

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By: lance_

lance_ — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 05:23:41 +0000

@Keith,

That does sound like a good idea. I wish that it was brought up in the talk.

The difference in approaches in OFPS/community editing, citizendium/wikipedia would’ve added some interesting points. Community editing and feedback for non-fiction was barely talked about.

Very happy to see that Bryan’s version of the feedback system is open sourced too. I’ll play around with OFPS when reading the Scala book. Looking forward to learning, and hope to see some O’Reilly reps at the next bookcamp. :)

By: Keith Fahlgren

Keith Fahlgren — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 22:14:39 +0000

"""O’Reilly might be able to have community editing. It’s a nightmare for fiction.""" We developed OFPS after realizing that community *editing* and wikis were a (partial) failure. The current idea is to harness user feedback, but keep the authors in control of the actual text.