(Updated)

I know it’s a cheap shot,  but I’m impatient, so trying to watch the demo tour of wetpaint really felt like watching wet paint dry.  Perhaps everyone’s over there now, having read SiliconBeat’s writeup.  

Joke apart, I could not care less how slow the tour is, if it delivers.  I’ve written about the importance of mathching the right tools with one’s objectives, and how a combination of blogs, wikis and forums can create a dynamic, live personal webspace.  I’m using both SocialText and JostSpot, and while I find them easy enough, they clearly are after the corporate market.  Wetpaint says it will “to combine the community-building aspects of online forums with the publishing ease of wikis and blogs”.   If it really does (had no time to test it yet), it might just be the perfect tool for everyday individuals.

Update (3/6):  Wetpaint may not be the set of individual productivity tools I thought it was.  It’s part of a community-building effort, the currently available communities being: dogs, cancer, bird flu, Democrats, Republicans and Xbox 360. Hm… I think I’ll pass .. for a while.  I left my email address though, to be notified when it will become available to create one’s own site.  More info here and here.

Update (3/6):  Ahh, watch those servers guys,  you’ve just got TechCrunched

Update (3/7):  More posts, reviews:

• WetPaint.com – Building a Better Wiki
• Could community wikis be the tipping point?

Tags: blogs, blogging, wiki, wikis, SocialText, JotSpot, wetpaint, collaboration, forum, publishing