If you combine perception-stretching science and technology with practical futurism, you start to get real-world applications.( Jon Lebkowsky)

Therefore it's pure fun to consider wikis and weblogs as aleatoric devices, as far as one can use them to rearrange every single encoded knowledge snippet in any way possible . This mind shifting technology leads to completely different workflows concerning the acquisition and distribution of knowledge within any company setting because knowledge working becomes composing.

The term aleatoric was introduced in 1954 by Werner Meyer-Eppler. He borrows the idea from "Théorie des fonctions aléatoires" of André Blanc-Lapierre and Robert Fortet. Meyer-Eppler defines processes within an acoustical context as aleatorically as far as the overall course is predefined although in detail everything stays related to accident. So, aleatoric is less about pure accident then as about small, controlled aberrations within a flow of things.

In musical terms this is equivalent to the uniqueness of every single interpretation of a composition. No musician will play an aleatoric compsition the same way twice.Constant innovation and expressiveness is a logical consequence of this technique.

The associative structure of knowledge within wikis makes it especially appropriate to browse the content according to aleatorical principles. In an analogous manner we just have to slightly change the sequence in which we navigate wiki-pages to change the meaning of the retrieved context.

This way aleatoric becomes a cognitive style which describes a best practice wiki usage; quite amazing , indeed! One doesn't focus exclusively on one specific info page anymore. Instead meaning becomes a byproduct of the arrangement and sequencing of several knowledge-snips.
The interrelation of messages as deliberate ascription of meaning turns working with the semantic web into a creative game.