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The renascence of the writer.(disContent)(Online writers and user generated content)(Column)

Publication: EContent
Publication Date: 01-MAR-07
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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I ended last year with a dour projection suitable for a dark winter's night. I'd like to start this year with encouraging signs more suitable for a springtime of renewed possibilities. I believe the encouraging signs are real, and as a reader I delight in that belief.

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...conversational collaborative technologies may have an unexpected and welcome side effect: the renascence of the writer. Mindful, literate, cogent, interesting, readable writers are emerging from unexpected sources--and net media helps such writers to emerge.

Systems like wikis and collaborative ratings tools can bury individual voices through shared editing and sound-byte communication. Whatever Wikipedia's strengths, its articles lack the clear voice and narrative coherence of the best...

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