[FM Discuss] the comments

[adam hyde]

hey

i just wanted to post a few of the points that were made in the comments
on the Booki Drumbeat page....I found them pretty inspirational :


* "bridge between the online and physical sustainability of sharing."

* "an education and learning environment of the future commons!"

* "text books for education could be written collaboratively"

* "the ability to style the book using CSS is a really powerful feature
[...] restyle your book depending on the audience you are reaching but
leave the book's content completely untouched. "

* "a great idea to bring people and communities together to author
books, engaging them with their subjects and empowering them in the
process"

* "booki enables myriad projects"

* "the Web needs more coherent and longer texts to complement the
proliferation of votes, status updates, news items and opinion pieces. "

* "Booki takes the familiar book format and makes it collaboratively
written social media."

* "for any kind of open content, whether it's techniques of master
woodworkers, or oral histories for a town or neighborhood, or any text
where people want to collaborate to create it."

* "Booki bakes in openness, so that sharing is the default."

* "It enables and empowers people to publish and disseminate knowledge
and to adapt, remix, and augment the knowledge produced by others."

* "I think books and printing are natural allies of the open web,
enabling a cool transition between screen information and offline
format. "

* "By openly writing and creating printed copies, in a way that anyone
can easily do it, booki represents a powerful tool for education,
literature, guides, and open knowledge in general,"


adam


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