An interesting problem for collaborative writing has emerged within the Million Penguins wikinovel project. One contributors has inflicted their obsession for bananas on the text. Yes, there's a "Banana version of [the] novel."
The Banana sat with all the others. It sat with it's freshly broken stem pointed up to the flouro glow of the old fruit shed's lights. It watched as the bugs flew around and around the lumenescent tubes in dizzying circles.
'Fools.' thought the banana. 'Poor fools' ...
The MP blog has a good discussion about how to react when a participatory media audience participates in an unanticipated, even problematic way.
This connects neatly with the problems Mike Sellers raised in yesterday's comment on my Third Life post, namely, how to shape virtual worlds in the face of misuse.
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