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Is Wikipedia 'knowledge' merely third party hearsay?

Is Wikipedia 'knowledge' merely third party hearsay?Wikipedia isn't true? WAAAAA!Wikipedia isn't [i]intended[/i] to be an infallible fount of truth. It is simply meant to be an information sharing resource with the ability to be updated and edited much more quickly than traditional printed material.As the article even states,...

Tags: Wiki, Wales, Verifiability, Wikipedia, ELVIS, knowledge

Discussion threads 2006-09-12

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What really happened to Wikipedia

Well, not quite.:-) Nice piece.I'd question that the influx of money (which is still trivial - a few million dollars is NOTHING to run a top 10 website) has anything much to do with the processes such as the living people's bio policy. One is the Foundation, the other is...

Tags: Wiki, Wikipedia, Wikimedia

Discussion threads 2009-08-25

Open source values: transparency

Open source values: transparencyI Vote for Honesty Over TransparencyThe operative word should be "honesty".How many times have you seen ads, e.g., that are transparently dishonest? Doesn't "Transparent" mean that one can see through outward behavior into true and sometimes hidden motivations?Journalists and politicians are often transparently dishonest as well, and...

Tags: transparency, Transparency, open source, Open Source Values

Discussion threads 2007-11-06

Your digital camera: A poor man's fax machine? Why not?

Your digital camera: A poor man's fax machine? Why not?Resolution, dudeSay you use a 6 MP digital camera. That's about 2,800 by 2,100 pixels, of which the actual paper image would occupy about 5.6 MP for 8 1/2 x 11 or 4.7 MP for 8 1/2 x 14. A low-end...

Tags: Scanners, Digital cameras, Digital photography, Poor Man, fax, camera, digital camera, scanner, fax machine, SHA-256, Adobe PDF

Discussion threads 2007-05-18

Vote online for President? Internet voting meets 'User Generated Politics'

Edition Number 19 in this Digital Markets Blog special presidential campaign 2008 series on what I am calling “User Generated Politics.” The Association for Computing Machinery asserts: Ensuring the reliability, security, and verifiability of public elections is fundamental to a stable democracy. Convenience and speed of vote...

Tags: Culture, Government, Hillary Clinton, Internet Data, Legal, Local, Metrics, Political Campaign, Politics, President Clinton, Presidential Race, User Generated Politics

Blog posts 2007-02-19

Social Capital Theory Meets Web 2.0, by Donna Bogatin

SOCIAL CAPITAL THEORY MEETS WEB 2.0by Donna BogatinInteractive Presentation Authored by Donna BogatinFor presentation at IBM Research Center, Tuesday, February 6, 2007, 11am I am invited to share my Web 2.0 thoughts with T.J. Watson Research Labs. In Web 2.0 and blogosphere fashion, my presentation to IBM will...

Tags: Business Models, Web 2.0, Usability, Enterprise, Blogs, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Brands, Self-Promotion, Social Networking, Social Media, Wikipedia

Blog posts 2007-02-05

Can Wikipedia handle the truth?

The threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is Wikipedias own notion of “verifiability,” not truth, I pointed out last September in “Is Wikipedia ‘knowledge’ merely third party hearsay?” Wikipedia has an aversion to truth, as I discussed in “Why Digg fraud, Google bombing, Wikipedia vandalism will not be stopped.”Wikipedia co-founder Larry...

Tags: Web 2.0, Citizen Journalism, Culture, Microsoft, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Amateur Content, Self-Promotion, Wikipedia, Social Media

Blog posts 2007-01-24

Would open source make elections fair?

Would open source make elections fair?Unintentional duplication, I presume.There's a paragraph that appears to be making its point by repetition.You DON'T want receiptsVoting receipts is an idiotic idea and it only invites more corruption.Our votes are supposed to be [b]secret[/b] for a reason - so that votes cannot be bought...

Tags: Authentication/Encryption, Digital security, Network security, SECURITY, PKI, ballot, open source, Diebold Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-11-06

Microsoft's moves towards detente

Microsoft continues with moves that make it easier for open source projects to use its technology. On Tuesday, Microsoft published the Microsoft Open Specification Promise the link to the actual promise document can be found here which guarantees that Microsoft will never sue anyone for using patents related to critical...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., open source

Blog posts 2006-09-14

Is Wikipedia 'knowledge' merely third party hearsay?

Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia founder, is a master communicator and salesman. The quality of the product that he touts, however, does not match the quality of his orations.In a Wall Street Journal e-mail debate with Dale Hoiberg, editor-in-chief of Britannica, Wales put forth his familiar ode to Wikipedia, “the free encyclopedia...

Tags: Wikipedia

Blog posts 2006-09-12

Why Digg fraud, Google bombing, Wikipedia vandalism will not be stopped

Kevin Rose reaffirms he is “defending digg from spam, artificial diggs, and digg fraud.” At the same time, however, he also reaffirms Digg’s commitment to friend-based “sharing.” While Rose puts forth a variety of planned “updates” to Digg’s algorithims, it is uncertain how self-promotional manipulation of Digg by committed bloggers,...

Tags: Digg, Wikipedia

Blog posts 2006-09-07

Boost programming productivity: Define re-usable algorithms with interfaces and generics in CLR and C# 2.0

Generics, a new feature in version 2.0 of the C# language and the common language runtime CLR, has the power to make programmers extremely productive via code and algorithm re-use. Generics also provides the following big benefits to developers: source code protection; type safety; cleaner code; and better performance. Discover...

Tags: Algorithm, Microsoft Press, CLR, Programming, C#, .Net, Programming Languages, Middleware, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software

Book chapters 2006-08-10

TV in a TiVo world

Digital Video Recorders DVRs are changing the way people watch television. Time shifting, which is the short name for recording shows and watching them whenever you want, has been common since the arrival of the VCR. Digital Video Recorders, however, are different. Digital video recording is...

Tags: advertisement, TV

Blog posts 2006-07-17

UML 2.0 - Based Systems Engineering Using a Model Driven Approach

More and more, system engineers are turning to the Unified Modeling Language UML to specify and structure their systems. This has many advantages, including verifiability and ease of passing off information to other engineering disciplines, particularly software. This webcast focuses on how the new UML 2.0 meets the needs of...

Tags: UML 2.0, I-Logix, Systems Engineering, UML, Programming Languages, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development

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