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- Can Wikipedia withstand the weight of spam?
- Will Wikipedia face the same fate of the Open Directory Project -- where marketeers have spammed the site to render it useless. Thats the view of Law professor Eric Goldman in a recent blog post in which he predicts the sites demise by 2010 unless is fundamentally changes its editorial...
- Tags: Wikipedia, Wikipedians
- Blog posts 2007-01-22
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- Course Credits as a Reward for Collaboration
- Distance learning -Â providing access to learning when the source of information and the learners are separated by time and/or distance -Â has been around since the dawn of postal delivery services. In the current economic climate further education seems likely to take...
- Tags: Education, Distance Learning, Collaboration, Training, Enrollment, Straighterline, Employee Orientation Training Day, E-learning, Training And Certification, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-09-06
- Med students should be editing, not using, Wikipedia
- Med students should be editing, not using, WikipediaWikipedia will support thisJust to add to the story, I should point out that Wikipedians support schools and professors who want to integrate improvement of Wikipedia articles into their courses: see the Wikipedia page "Wikipedia:School and university projects" (shortcut "WP:SUP", if I remember...
- Tags: Wiki, Wikipedia, Med
- Discussion threads 2009-06-09
- Zittrain explains the future of the Internet
- Oxford professor and Harvard pioneer Johnathan Zittrain came to the CBS Interactive offices in San Francisco on Tuesday to speak and sign copies of his new book "The Future of the Internet... and How to Stop It". His presentation was called Civic Technologies. ...
- Tags: Router, Technology, Zittrain, Internet, Routers & Switches, Networking, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- Searching for definition
- Searching for definitionThe stage 1 levellerThe development that is seeding right now is predicted by many to be a growth phase of around 10 years. Why ten years I'm not sure, probably it links to the cycles inherent in our financial systems.Enterprise must adapt very quickly. Whilst they can grow...
- Tags: Searching
- Discussion threads 2008-06-15
- Wikipedia: Why does Essjay need to "protect himself"?
- Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia and Wikia, has issued a free pass to a Wikipedia editor who lied about his background. In an incredible contradiction, Wales said of Wikipedia editor and Wikia employee Ryan Jordan (nee "Essjay"): "“I accepted his apology, because he is now, and has always been, an...
- Tags: Business &, Technology
- Blog posts 2007-03-05
- Wikipedia's big problem-that no one else realizes yet
- Wikipedia's big problem-that no one else realizes yetRethinking URLsThere's definitely an issue with the dependency wikipedia has on links outside it's own control. I wonder if the problem described however, is the limitation of the URL rather than the resource. Tim Bray's blog on Rethinking URLs touches on similar issues...
- Tags: Wiki, Wikipedia
- Discussion threads 2007-02-16
- Whistle blown on wiki for whistle-blowers
- Whistle blown on wiki for whistle-blowersThis site has to be the worst idea of the year.Not only can any Joe-shmoe post totally fabricated information anonimously, but it's also considered to be fact until it's democratically proven otherwise. I'm curious when it was decided that the truth is decided by...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Wiki, moderator, chinese page, government
- Discussion threads 2007-02-07
- 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
- Wikipedia and its 'bad seed': Is Web 2.0 a friend of true knowledge?
- Wikipedia and its 'bad seed': Is Web 2.0 a friend of true knowledge?Facts or truth?You may have received an answer, but how do you know if it is true? At least sorting through Google searches let you authenticate the sources. I take Wikpedia "answers" with a large pinch of...
- Tags: Wiki, Wikipedia, bad seed, knowledge, Web, seed, Web 2.0
- Discussion threads 2006-09-21
- Web 2.0 smackdown: intellectuals vs. amateurs in Citizendium
- Larry Sanger, Wikipedia co-founder, is embarking on an ambitious and undoubtedly Web 2.0 politically-incorrect mission to shepherd the brain power of what he estimates is 3% of the Internet population: intellectuals or “educated, thinking people who read about science or ideas regularly.”Sanger is hoping to spearhead a high-brow spin-off of...
- Tags: Wikipedia
- Blog posts 2006-09-17
- Wikipedia still doesn't get it
- Wikipedia still doesn't get itEasy solutionWikipedia is actually a great idea - it would be incredibly easy to add a byline that hyperlinks to a users' credentials. We don't get to publish our blogs anonymously, purporting to be knowledgeable in a given area. Wikipedia should be no different...
- Tags: Wiki, accountability, Wikipedia
- Discussion threads 2006-07-28
- Mitch Kapor: Why Wikipedia is the next big thing
- At the close of the first day of the Open Source Business Conference, Mitch Kapor explained why he thinks Wikipedia is the next big thing. He first deconstructed the online encyclopedia, which is one of the top 20 Web sites, and punctured holes in myths, such as “someone has to...
- Tags: Mitch noted.After, Wikipedia
- Blog posts 2006-02-14
- Less Wikipedia will be more
- This, the third installment of my commentary [see previous installment] about how to improve Wikipedia, was guaranteed by me to offend just about everyone. I'm not aiming to offend, but contradictory perspectives and experience often come off as condescending to those eager to think they know everything after gaining...
- Tags: Wikipedia
- Blog posts 2006-01-11
- Making Wikipedia better, Part II
- Making Wikipedia better, Part IISure, like I have that much time...Mr. Ratcliffe makes a huge assumption in his article, which is that anyone has the time to actually research these things. Let's look at some of his ideas:* The reader should investigate the change history of an article. Even with...
- Tags: Wiki, Strategy, Wikipedia, ELVIS
- Discussion threads 2006-01-05
- The real issue: Wikipedia can be better
- This is the first in a series of postings about how to make Wikipedia, one of the most important and positive innovations in recent years, better. I know it will be seen by Wikipedians as negative criticism, but it's constructive criticism. Part Two will provide specific suggestions about the...
- Tags: Wikipedia
- Blog posts 2006-01-03
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