{"id":172,"date":"2003-10-05T22:57:11","date_gmt":"2003-10-06T03:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/10\/can-the-law-handle-the-wiki\/"},"modified":"2003-10-05T22:57:11","modified_gmt":"2003-10-06T03:57:11","slug":"can-the-law-handle-the-wiki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/10\/can-the-law-handle-the-wiki\/","title":{"rendered":"can the law handle the wiki?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>many moons ago,  i spent some time brutalizing a <a href=\"http:\/\/joi.ito.com\/joiwiki\/EmergentDemocracyPaper\">paper<\/a> describing an interesting political concept (emergent democracy).<\/p>\n<p>today,  i learned that this paper and some related materials would be <a href=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/digitaldemocracy\/syllabus.html#5\">required reading<\/a> for law students at a well-known university.  that&#8217;s interesting in and of itself.  but it gets better&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>apparently,  these lawyers-in-training are having a hard time wrapping themselves around the <a href=\"http:\/\/c2.com\/cgi\/wiki?WikiPhilosophyFaq\">philosophy<\/a> of the <a href=\"http:\/\/joi.ito.com\/joiwiki\/FrontPage?http:\/\/joi.ito.com\/joiwiki\/FrontPage\">wiki<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>i can think of several reasons a &#8220;mutable text&#8221; would disturb lawyers and lawyers-in-training, but i&#8217;ll just leave it with this, in the hopes that some of these students will &#8220;get it&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>a wiki is like the entire body of laws and court opinions, only everyone&#8217;s a lawyer and everyone&#8217;s a judge and everyone&#8217;s a legislator.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; oh, and it&#8217;s important to play nice on a wiki.<\/p>\n<p><strong>update<\/strong>:  added link to the course syllabus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>many moons ago, i spent some time brutalizing a paper describing an interesting political concept (emergent democracy). today, i learned that this paper and some related materials would be required reading for law students at a well-known university. that&#8217;s interesting in and of itself. but it gets better&#8230;. apparently, these lawyers-in-training are having a hard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}