pbwiki says that “making a free wiki is as easy as making a peanut butter sandwich.” Their recent step in updating their web editor is a step in the right direction for the wiki community. It’s still a nerdy little application but it demonstrates a few people thinking about the right things. pbwiki is worth a try for those just getting acquainted with the power of the wiki and is much easier to start than most. pbwiki is a hosted application but seems to have some horsepower. Looks like we can even add our own css.

Newsflash: Just as I was about to hit the submit button, I saw the post on the pbwiki blog about raising a couple of million bucks. Now we gotta sharpen our pencils and submit our wish list. Maybe now someone can de-nerdify wikis and make them work for my dad (a metaphor I use to relate to communications and technologies that need to pass the usability barometer….if they can be used by my dad, then they have a fighting chance!(I love my dad, but he’s not ready for most wikis yet))

Great work by the pbwiki team on this. And, by the way, the “nerdy” comment is a sincere compliment. Respect…