What is all this “noise vs signal” stuff?
In electronic communications, one can find a lot of cases of interferences to the electrical devices, also called “noise”, that disrupt the “signal” or the actual communication. In normal situations, if the signal is stronger than the noise, the communication can take place, thus even in bad links, you can have a communication link. However, in some cases, noise is much greater than the signal and no information can pass from that link. Metaphorically, in a mailing list thread or in a newsgroups thread, when the actual discussion on the raised issue is not happening and people divert to other subjects, the noise ratio is more than the signal. Q: This is pretty radical, but give me some REAL examples where you can use wiki effectively. Are we just talking about a kind of dynamic brainstorming session … so if you want to come up with some ideas, use wiki … OK great … but what else?! A1: Most of the grass roots wireless networks use wikis. See SeattleWireless, PersonalTelco, etc, et
