Who needs YouTube when you can use the power of the written word? Publishing house Penguin has launched new software to allow budding writers to collaboratively tell stories. "Wiki" software, the force behind wikipedia.com, will allow budding writers to write pieces of fiction together from all around the world. The publisher says the goal of the software is to see if strangers can create a piece of legitimate fiction together. As the head of digital publishing at Penguin, said, "This is an experiment. It may end up like reading a bowl of alphabet spaghetti. We are not making any predictions. It would be utterly fantastic if we could at the end create a print remix." Budding authors have already begun a story using the software. Currently in chapter one, the story features a "troubled man", Carlo, walking his dog and a "seductive" murderer, Tom Morouse, living across the world. Penguin says the software will be online for six weeks, allowing anyone the chance to add to the story. The story, titled "A Million Penguins", went live on the internet on February 1. Reminds me of the old story that if you locked a thousand chimpanzees with a thousand typewriters in a room for a thousand years, they’d come up with the collected works of Shakespeare. We’ll see!
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I couldn't manage Shakespeare. Will Chekov in the original Russian do?
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