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I’ve added a blogging on blogging swicki to Eurekster. Cool, but what is a swicki? According to Eurekster:

Swickis are a cross between search engines and Wikipedia - the community can add, delete and improve the results.

First impressions are that it provides nothing that mediawiki (the platform used for wikipedia.org) can’t do - but it can do more: swickis search across a wide range of sites (including blogs). Not only that - and here is where it gets interesting - every reader can add their own links into the results, changing them. The swicki will still give results based on relevance, but user-voted popularity can also alter results. Not only that, but you can ask questions and provide answers to those of other people. I can’t pretend to understand the full implications of this concept but I am willing to play along to find out

I’ve put the blogging on blogging swicki tag cloud equivalent into my sidebar on this blog. If it sounds like you, I would encourage you to have a look. If you want to use the swicki tag cloud in your own blog, please follow this link.