Collaboration

Welcome to the new culturekitchen WIKI. What is a |wiki? Glad you asked :

A wiki is a collaborative website which can be directly edited by anyone with access to it. Ward Cunningham, developer of the first wiki WikiWikiWeb, originally described it as "the simplest online database that could possibly work". One of the best-known wikis is Wikipedia.

Thanks to Culture Kitchen's ad lineup, I just learned something I really wanted to know but wouldn't have known to look for any other way, probably. (Keep watching those ads, y'all!)

If Ira Glass' --yes, that's the possessive with an apostrophe and NO extra S! -- new tv show is destined to be as good as his "This American Life" on radio, then I finally have educational justification to add the network airing it to my cable service. His NPR show on superpowers, with John Hodgman interviewing regular folks on the street about whether they'd choose flying or invisibility and why, was an instant classic. And the show about what three things we live and die for -- talk about power of story. . .Ira Glass doesn't tell stories the way anybody else does.

Episode 1 - "Reality Check"
Three stories of people who hatched plans in the hopes of making their dreams come true, but were snapped back to reality by unpleasant outcomes: an elementary school student tries to solve a common childhood problem; a rancher resuscitates a beloved pet, which later turns on him; people team to give an unknown rock band the greatest night of its life.

I remember the last bit, about the unknown rock band, from the radio show. There was a LOT more to it than this, about creativity and community, whether contrived spontaneity and ambush improv is fair (a la Borat?) and whether it's true, for the players OR the unsuspecting audience -- I'm still thinking hard about the cultural questions of meaning it raised for me.

You have two sources of information for styling your posts. On top of the post form you have a series of buttons. These buttons allow you a minimum of formatting with no knowledge of style coding in either HTML or CSS.

inserts the tags to create italics.

inserts the tags to bold the text.

is absolutely necessary to introduce quotes from a source that are a paragraph or more long. You wrap the text in


tags in order to get the following effect:

culturekitchen is a community blog aimed at cultural creatives who believe progressive activism starts in the kitchen, the bedroom, the home, the wallet. It is open for all who believe the decline of progressive and libertarian values have set us back as a democratic nation.

For more information on how to handle quotes, please go to How To Quote Sources.

makes it easy to create links to other sites. Now pay attention because there are two parts to using this button.

• When you click on the button you will get the . You need to put the internet address (URL) to the place you are linking to after the backward slashes [ // ] and right up to the quotation mark with closing bracket [ "> ].
• Right after the the quotation mark with closing bracket [ "> ] is where you put in the text you want to use to point to the link.

  Normally I prefer people use the title of the article or page they are pointing to; but you can use text like "Source", "Here", "Link", etc.

• Click on the button again to insert , the link that closes your code.

So culturekitchen looks like this : culturekitchen.

is used to insert the <"!--break--"> PHP tag (without the quote marks) to divide the content that will go the front page from the rest of the post.