On April 8, 2007, the ArtandPopularCulture wiki was founded. At the end of that day, this [1] is how the wiki looked.

The wiki is still best described as Jahsonic‘s project to seek connections, bridges and intersections between high culture, pulp and avant-garde, or, towards a postmodern canon. It served as the successor to Jahsonic.com (1996-2007)[2] which had become nearly unmanageable and hard to make better without severely diluting its idiosyncrasy.

Today, there are there are 42,940 pages and 250 files have been uploaded. There have been a total of 5,692,699 page views, and 225,268 page edits since the wiki was setup. That comes to 3.30 average edits per page, and 25.27 views per edit.

In its first year, writing version 1.0 consisted of completing the almanac. Version 2.0 would have been an almanac per year. Instead, thanks to a recent partnership with a programmer with taste we are moving towards exploiting the web 2.0 capabilities of this wiki using applications such as Yahoo! Pipes.

I’ve been using with great satisfaction my wiki as bliki and would invite all of you nobrow fellow-travellers to do the same by making a user account and writing about your interests on your personal page.