Thing 16: Wiki's

As a long time user of Wikipedia, I am fairly familiar with Wiki's in general. Because of that, I can say with relative certainty that the wiki is one piece of technology which I could easily see becoming a replacement to email as a primary method of communication for non-personalized info. The ability to edit and add information "on the fly" has fantastic potential for people working on group projects where they are separated by distance or schedule. In the library world, this technology can also be used to reccomend and/or review books or authors or keep staff apprised of changes to schedules and events, which is evidenced by the Bookloverswiki.

There is of course a potential downside as having free access to change the data on a page could be seen as an invitation for malicious or incorrect edits or postings (as does happen on Wikipedia).