THE art of biography, we say — but at once go on to ask, Is biography an art? The question is foolish perhaps, and ungenerous certainly, considering the keen pleasure that biographers have given us.
On March 25, 1995, Ward Cunningham launched WikiWikiWeb, the first ever "wiki" website. The idea of the site—then radical—was to allow users to add to and edit the site on the fly. By reducing the ...