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FlickrLicio.us is ad free!

[NickStarr.com : Nick Starr dot com] So how about this Flickr, as of 1pm EST today there will be no ads on the site; however, if you would allow simple Google ads, which you have used on your site up until recently when Yahoo contextual ads seem to of taken over, it would be seen a king gesture.

Wikis and Google

[SA Blog] We can believe this as a reflection of superlative ranking only if we also believe that the fifth slot, taken by the health center of Keio University, enjoys better ranking (and better relevance to ”*+*”) than Google, Yahoo!, MSN, CNN, and dozens of other likely candidates. Shah attributes Wiki’s fine placement to its dense intralinkage and social structure””attributes for which Keio University, so far as I know, is not renowned.”

Posted at 12:57 PM

October 31, 2005

FlickrLicio.us is ad free!

Posted at 12:57 PM

Wikis and Google

Posted at 12:57 PM

Since when was Wikipedia Web2.0?

[:Ben Metcalfe Blog] I know there still isn’t really a conclusive description of what Web2.0 actually is, but in my mind it exists at a computer-to-computer level. Getting your script or application to read/write to another online application, etc.

Posted at 12:53 PM

October 30, 2005

a better wikipedia will require a better conversation

[if:book] There's an interesting discussion going on right now under Kim's Wikibooks post about how an open source model might be made to work for the creation of authoritative knowledge -- textbooks, encyclopedias etc. A couple of weeks ago there was some dicussion here about an article that, among other things, took some rather cheap shots at Wikipedia, quoting (very selectively) a couple of shoddy passages.

Posted at 05:03 PM

Projection and perfection

[RatcliffeBlog””Mitch's Open Notebook] If I came out and said your favorite Web service was not as awesome as it portends to be, you'd likely feel it to be akin to a personal attack. Why?

Posted at 05:02 PM

FlickrLicio.us is ALIVE!

[NickStarr.com : Nick Starr dot com] The other sites previously mentioned have removed their ads as well, and are back alive and kicking. I want to appoligize to them, but I was backed into a corner and felt as if I was being singled out.

Posted at 05:00 PM

How to Contribute to Wikipedia

[Micro Persuasion] Lifehacker has one heckuva great tutorial on how to contribute to Wikipedia. Most of it covers the technical side, not the ethical discussion of how...

Posted at 04:54 PM

Geek to Live: How to contribute to Wikipedia

[Brokekid.net] The same sort of thing holds true with Wikipedia, when you have a number of people dictating the content of an entry on Wikipedia. Their are experts in each category and folks that know less than they think they know and it averages out to the truth.

Posted at 04:53 PM

NSBA: Blogging/wikis

[The Savvy Technologist] I had the pleasure of hosting a second roundtable discussion this morning. The room was full and we had some good discussion of many of the issues that come up whenver there’s a discussion of blogs, wikis, and other interactive, Web-based tools.

Posted at 04:51 PM

How Good Is Wikipedia?

[Exigency In Specie] Scot Hacker over at Birdhouse.org higlighted an interesting article that the Guardian published on Monday, asking the question as to how good the...

Posted at 04:51 PM

Openpedia.org > October 31, 2005

FlickrLicio.us is ad free!

Wikis and Google

October 31, 2005

FlickrLicio.us is ad free!

Wikis and Google

Since when was Wikipedia Web2.0?

October 30, 2005

a better wikipedia will require a better conversation

Projection and perfection

FlickrLicio.us is ALIVE!

How to Contribute to Wikipedia

Geek to Live: How to contribute to Wikipedia

NSBA: Blogging/wikis

How Good Is Wikipedia?

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