The Playground is OPEN

Finally, something usable!

http://fivenineseven.com/words

I'm sincerely regretting doing nearly all the coding for this site by hand. While it's satisfying to create something like this from the proverbial ground up, I now realize I could have made this process go much more smoothly with the aid of some open-source tools (I made good use of jQuery, but no other freely available building blocks). Regardless, the outcome is a solid foundation for what we hope will blossom into a vibrant playground of collaborative creativity--anyone (this includes you) is able to:

• Start a written work
• Revise existing works
• Vote on pending revisions
• Make Sean Penn bob his head up and down incessantly
  

Still in the hopper for future versions, though, are several notable features like:

• Tag clouds for browsing
• Highlighted differences between current works and proposed revisions
• Constraining/finalizing revisions
• Comment fields for works and revisions

The success and continuous development of the site relies on active participation in creating, revising, and voting on other's work--it requires several users to output anything worth creating such a system for! We'll be participating, and listening to any and all feedback on how to further refine this environment of mutual interaction.