NP online collaborative writing project

[Doug Millison]

Some of you may find this interesting:

9.  M is for Nottingham?
http://califia.hispeed.com/Incubation2/

A creative and innovative project at Nottingham Trent University in Britain
has created a forum that teaches the craft of online writing through an
online murder mystery.  The project, M Is for Nottingham?, brings together
students and writers from all over the world to collaboratively develop an
online murder mystery, and offers students and the Internet community the
opportunity to learn how to collaborate online to create narratives.
Visitors of the site can visit Web pages that contain clues to the online
mystery. As the readers progress through the story, they can click on clues
in the text and visit Web sites to get more information, or can go to online
conference areas to collaborate with other participants. Guests who want
more involvement can enter the story by adopting ready-made characters, or
can choose to create their own. Based on what they know, these more active
participants can write segments that add new details and plot lines to the
overall story. At the end of June, the submitted materials will be collected
and a conclusion devised. The project will then hire actors to play out the
finale at _Incubation2_, an international conference sponsored by the
university's Online Writing Centre in July, where conference delegates will
discuss whether online writing poses a threat to traditional books. [MG]

from:

The Scout Report
June 7, 2002
  Volume 8, Number 21
 Internet Scout Project
University of Wisconsin
Department of Computer Sciences

 http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/misc/lists/