"So, Beck, why don't you put up a photo? And, if you are not Australian, what are you? A Kiwi, perhaps? Come out of the closet and join the rest of us."

"Hi Daniel Im 3rd year now - nearly finished and I canvassed a few friends on this and no-one wanted to spend their time doing wikis. Also why force students to publish their work when they are still learning to write and explore their fields. We…"

"Huon I am afraid you are missing the point completely. You keep tracking back to something akin to "oh well publisher A lost money so publisher A1 in a new guise [ie Wiki] will make money - someone always makes money, thats the way of the world…"

"I am just a little concerned about the direction this thread is taking. I am sure people are not interested where I as a person stand on things - I am a very small fish in a very small pond and I like it that way. Just to clarify, my response was to…"

"I meant ears, fears and insecurities"

"Gee that was quick I just signed back in No I love libraries - especially capital city ones, but you illustrate precisely my point, about the fallacy of comparing libraries and the Internet, you end up hurtling down the road of the old collective…"

"Hi Kathleen, One thing I would argue is not to view libraries and the Internet as comparable - at least in the sense I am talking about which, is that Wikis are about the work of actually producing written texts and appropriating labour. Libraries,…"

"Also I want to add Wiki groups and Open Source groups run this ideology of community precisely at the time when many people around the world engaged in working and raising families etc fear a loss of community of tribal connection sort of thing.…"

"Huon you miss understand me, I'm talking regulation of privatized Internet to allow greater equality of access especially to those who will be in the slow lane vis-a-vis high speed private internet services which will take over the bandwidth. I…"

"Huon there is nothing Peruvian or Brazilian about this - BUT on that issue, sorry, but this is the conceit that comes out of Europe all the time now - that we (your others) have to deal with on a daily basis - people making derogatory asides using…"

"Hi Huon These are two entirely different things - nothing to do with Marx supposedly pouring over texts in a library. Daniel comes at this discussion with quite an extensive background in the open source wiki movement and Keith hart comes at this…"

"Daniel, the blog you linked to is the Linux one and I suppose they are are going to spin that line no matter what anyone says. But there are other statistics out there - such as the increase in pay per view journals and the growth in specialist…"

"Oh btw, the more you co-operate with wiki groups and educendium for instance, the more "I believe" that you will contribute to the ability of Universities and research institutes to outsource teaching and tuting. In Australia this is…"

"Thanks Daniel for your response. My perspective on the matter of the Internet is that it has been made a fetish by the "anthropology on the wane collective". By contrast I don't think anthropology is on the wane and nor do I think…"

"Just Satire,I declare,for whom can still appreciate it...."