Playing with Fontana's wiki was a bit challenging, simply because it's a technology I haven't worked with before. It was much easier to figure out than DreamWeaver, and anyone can use it! The most frustrating aspect was that I couldn't figure out how to get my blog name's color to match everyone else's (NOT on the Favorite blogs page--I added myself to the list of all blogs). Not the most drastic of problems, but an annoying one nonetheless. Because it is now coffeetime, I gave up.
Otherwise, it was really easy to sign in and edit pages. I added "The West Wing" to the list of favourite tv shows and linked it to imdb's site. I considered adding a page for West Wing comments, but there really isn't that much to say about it (not to mention that I'm behind everybody else in posting, so most people won't even notice that I've added a page...).
Not to harp, but let's go back to Wikipedia for a moment. Now that I know just HOW easy it is to modify pages, I have an even stronger aversion to wikipedia. It's fine for researching information just for curiosity's sake, but I'm extremely wary about trusting the information I find (unless I can verify it through either an outside source or a trusted bibliographic reference on Wikipedia's page).
I do wish we had a book review wiki for our system--it would be much easier to recommend books to patrons if I had their peers' reviews in an easily accessible area.
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