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Wiki Comparison

[SitePoint Blogs] Opinion: although it’s a better place to start comparing wiki’s than anything else I’ve seen, to me what’s missing is things like “ease of maintenance”, “performance”, “scales to X pages / hits (link to real site)”, “actively developed / maintained”, “mean time to fix bugs / security issues” etc.

Gollum, The WIkipedia Browser

[Nogz Blogz] Gollum, The WIkipedia Browser Filed under: Site Stuff, Tech, Cool, Meme, Geek, Mashup, ajax/web 2.0, Downloads, Modding, Free, Wikipedia Piece of...

Posted at 10:03 PM

November 30, 2005

Wiki Comparison

Posted at 10:04 PM

Gollum, The WIkipedia Browser

[Nogz Blogz] Gollum, The WIkipedia Browser Filed under: Site Stuff, Tech, Cool, Meme, Geek, Mashup, ajax/web 2.0, Downloads, Modding, Free, Wikipedia Piece of...

Posted at 10:03 PM

Gollum, the Wikipedia Browser (in a browser)

[flipthedolphin] Gollum, the Wikipedia Browser (in a browser) Posted on Monday 28 November 2005 I came across this new fascinating Ajax powered site: Gollum, the...

Posted at 10:01 PM

"Swiftboating"

[FBIHOP] By using credible-sounding sources to make sensational and difficult-to-disprove accusations against the opponent, the campaign leverages media tendencies to give the story far more play than it would otherwise receive. Mostly used as a pejorative, the term has gained currency among liberal writers, while its appropriateness as a description of political debate has been questioned by some conservative commentators.OK, as close to the truth as we'll get.

Posted at 09:56 PM

Wikipedia: Can it be trusted?

[Metaphor, Dummy] The possibilities are endless, and now that this USA Today article has brought the situation to light, expect to see rampant acts of copycat fraudulence in the multilingual Web-based free-content encyclopedia. Some of them will be impossible to detect, leading to a decreased level of credibility for Wikipedia.

Posted at 09:55 PM

November 26, 2005

Commissioning Editor

[DARnet] last night I had dreadful journey across London with trains disrupted and buses too full to board, forcing me to do what Londoners often do after work in the early evening, spend a couple of hours in the pub before going home. I know, it’s a terrible burden and it meant I couldn’t do any work on the report I’m supposed to be finishing but never mind, there’s a fortnight of imitating the 14 day thesis to look forward to.

Posted at 11:14 PM

Wikipedia Enters the Top Ten Online News/Info Sites

[Connected Internet News | Broadband Mobile Gaming News] I think it is great that Wikipedia is still a advertising free site and that companies like Yahoo! are supporting it with cash and hardware.

Posted at 11:13 PM

I am a processor

[matt.net] Worse, even, I’m made by Intel. *sigh* While playing around with this lovely AJAX front-end to Wikipedia (digg story), I thought I’d look up my last...

Posted at 11:12 PM

Wapedia: Wikipedia für unterwegs

[Japhy.at] Wapedia: Wikipedia für unterwegs November 24th, 2005 Alle die das hier lesen kennen doch sicher Wikipedia, das großartige freie Online-Lexikon? Wenn...

Posted at 11:11 PM

Wikipedia’s Internet phenomenon

[Asymptomatic] A big list of Internet phenomenon, as provided and linked by Wikipedia

Posted at 11:10 PM

November 24, 2005

Download Wikipedia as XML

[Lifehacker, the Productivity and Software Guide] If you check out Wikimedia’s download site, you’ll notice that you can download whole chunks of Wikimedia Wikis.

Posted at 08:21 PM

Running out of featured articles?

[doctorvee] Today’s featured article on Wikipedia is about a song. Fine, you might say. “What world-changing song has gained...

Posted at 08:20 PM

Aspergers

[ Finally Getting Somewhere 2.0] I was doing some Wikipedian Travels, when I came across this article. Read it.

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Posted at 08:19 PM

the next dictionary

[if:book] Despite 80 million speakers, the current Swahili dictionary is over 30 years old. Setting this project apart from other online dictionaries, these entries are created by, not only academics, but also by volunteers ranging from former Peace Corp workers to African linguistic hobbyists.

Posted at 08:18 PM

The History and Customs of Thanksgiving Day

[Ian's Messy Desk] The first Thanksgiving celebration in North American was held in Newfoundland in 1548, forty-five years before the Plymouth Colony celebration in 1623. You can learn more of the histroy and customs of the holiday at the Thanksgiving entry at Wikipedia.

Posted at 08:16 PM

November 22, 2005

E-Mail so five minutes ago? I don't think so...

[Emergence Marketing] I buy the article's conclusion that "In the global race for innovation, it's not as much about leveraging what's inside your factories' machines as what's in your employees' heads", but not the sentence that comes right before that: "That's why fans say the beyond-e-mail workplace will become a key competitive advantage." Let's not forget that successful collaboration is maybe 50% technology and 50% people (individual behavior, company culture, etc.) Even with the best of tools, many companies will never be able to achieve great collaboration, just because of their anti-collaboration policies and cultures.

Posted at 03:43 PM

Grandma Merriam Ain't Getting Her Groove Back

[Media Orchard, by the Idea Grove] Merriam-Webster announced its "Open Dictionary" this week, where "you can 1) submit and share entries that aren't already in our Online Dictionary, and 2) browse entries submitted by other members of the Merriam-Webster Online community."

Posted at 03:42 PM

Wikipedia Rocks

[Lawsy.network] I have used Wikipedia for a very long time for research on school projects, looking up subjects for my site - usually the new buzz words (RSS, AJAX, syndicate etc.). I suppose I really just take it for grated it is always there and is constantly updated with tons of knowlege.

Posted at 03:38 PM

Wikipedia list of OpenSource tools

[SpaghettiTech | A mouthful of technology] Next time you're looking for an application, check this awesome list of open source packages from Wikipedia. Categories/Tags: software, Wikipedia...

Posted at 03:36 PM

Steve Ruble’s latest hacks - a suggestion

[Tom Raftery’s I.T. views] I wouldn’t let that stop you Steve - otherwise no-one would have anything to blog about after the first post!

Posted at 03:35 PM

November 18, 2005

Wikipedia as a Source for Sources

[Librarian in the Middle] I’ve been thinking about this for a bit. The ”˜It isn’t a good resource, except as a possible link to good resources’ doesn’t really work for me.

Posted at 11:13 AM

Update To Ajax Tagger Verision 2

[C#, .Net Framework] It is just a simple one, but you can now add in your own choice of tags from the tag list panel. It was supposed to be in their from the start, but I never got around to doing it.

Posted at 11:11 AM

Fresh vs. Relevant

[// Hiddenson’s Construct] My late research about categories, tags, and social networking has led me to the unsatisfactory conclusion that, with the information overflow we are facing, the online experience of many web users has been reduced to following the latest buzz.

Posted at 11:07 AM

November 08, 2005

Family Wiki

[Eamonn's Home] I've been remiss in posting here lately because I've been tied up in a couple of projects, both at work and at home. The first is that I've been creating a personal Wiki (a free-form editable Web site, the most famous example of which is Wikipedia).

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Posted at 10:28 AM

Attack of the Wiki Spammers

[ D’Arcy Norman Dot Net] The U of C Wiki was just hit by a moron who took 20 minutes to make 114 edits. It took me about 20 minutes to undo all of this clown’s links to whatever it was he’s trying to link to (using CSS to hide the links).

Posted at 10:27 AM

From Keyra Agustina to Vampire Watermelons: The Wikipedia

[ tabo @ aureal :: hacking for fun and profit] From Keyra Agustina to Vampire Watermelons: The Wikipedia Blogged under General by tabo on Saturday 5 November 2005 at 3:36 pm

Posted at 10:24 AM

Yahoo Context Search Was down

[C#, .Net Framework] For all the people (4) who are using AJAX Tag (http://www.kinlan.co.uk/AjaxExperiments/AjaxTag) and Ajax Tag 2 (http://www.kinlan.co.uk/AjaxExperiments/AjaxTag), who have noticed that the Wikipedia Articles are not being found it was due to a problem on Yahoo's end. I must commend the people at developer.yahoo.net, Toby Elliot especially for getting this rectified.

Posted at 10:23 AM

Nathan Kaiser, fact-checker

[EBlogger] There’s a brief interview with Jimmy Wales at nPost.com that has this entertaining little tidbit:

Posted at 10:22 AM

November 05, 2005

Spate of Key Items Found re RSS, Tagging, Blogs and Wikis

[Marshall Kirkpatrick] My web-friend Beth Kanter is on fire this week. She’s posted links to The World Information Society’s focus on blogs and wikis in the developing world, Alexandra Samuel’s very succinct Make Your Non-Profit More Effective with RSS and (perhaps most exciting) coverage of a recent talk by Joshua Schachter, the creator of Del.icio.us.

Posted at 11:47 AM

The art of vandalism on Wiki

[Tech news and insider stories for the IT industry - the i-kew blog] 02 November 2005 The art of vandalism on Wiki I just edited a tiny portion of the Wikipedia entry on Bill Gates. That makes me a...

Posted at 11:44 AM

BusinessWeek Podcast

[Ross Mayfield's Weblog] When I was in NYC last week I sat down with Steve Baker from BusinessWeek to chat about wikis. The podcast is here

Posted at 11:43 AM

Rating Wikipedia

[Open The Dialogue] Wondering about the value of Wikipedia? Rebecca Blood links to an item in The Guardian where some experts take a look at topics covered in their respective fields, and assign a score to the items they reviewed.

Posted at 11:41 AM

Top 10 Blog Design mistakes

[SA Blog] No Contact Details - A few weeks ago I was surfing through some blogs in an effort to build some relationships with some new bloggers and I was amazed - not actually I was stunned - but the number of bloggers that have no personal way of contacting them. Most of them had comments - but so many had no way to get an email to them.

Posted at 11:40 AM

Eid ul-Fitr (or Hari Raya Puasa)

[jkaiser’s still Breaking Rules..] The Islamic holiday of Eid al-Fitr marks the end of Ramadan, the month of fasting. On the day of the celebration, a typical Muslim family gets up very early and attends special prayers held only for the occasion in big mosques, in large open areas, stadiums or arenas.

Posted at 10:40 AM

Apple Mac Wikis

[goskar.com] A number of Apple Mac wikis appear to be cropping up. The first one that I came across is Wikitosh which hopes to be a repository for everything you ever wanted to know about the Apple Mac platform, from todays Macs and OSX, back to information about machines from days gone by (computer archaeology?!)

Posted at 10:38 AM

The new MarsEdit programmer

[TiKouka --- Miraz on Macs, web design and other matters.] We wanted to work more on MarsEdit, but we also wanted to work on NetNewsWire at the same time. So we thought of a bunch of different possibilities and decided to find another developer to help us with MarsEdit.

Posted at 10:36 AM

Borderline Wikis

[Blog before you Think!] The basic principle of a wiki is a shared space that anyone can edit. This simple idea is based on collaboration and communication and has generated...

Posted at 10:35 AM

Wiki for Singapore Policy

[Singabloodypore] This wiki hopes to aggregate the diverse opinions of people who wish to offer policy proposals for Singapore, so that readers can compare and decide for themselves which policies they think would be best for Singapore's future.

Posted at 10:32 AM

The network is my computer

[Leon Kilat ::: The Cybercafe Experiments] Early this year I experimented with having all my essential work related data online. I wanted things I needed for my section, my copy desk job and columns centralized on free online accounts and accessible anywhere.

Posted at 12:30 AM

choosing a personal note taking wiki

[now 20% more pointless | liquidx] choosing a personal note taking wiki mac python software wiki | 04 November 2005 02:32 i've just recently stumbled across pwyky, an extremely...

Posted at 12:29 AM

System administration is a conversation

[Joho the Blog] We don't really have a "the sys admin for wikipedia's servers in Florida" — there is a wiki style group of people who run the show.

Posted at 12:28 AM

Exploding head syndrome [del.icio.us]

[The Huge Entity] Exploding head syndrome is a rare condition first reported by a British physician in 1988 that causes the sufferer to occasionally experience a tremendously loud noise as if from within their own head, usually described as an explosion or a roar. This usually occurs within an hour or two of falling asleep, but is not the result of a dream.

Posted at 12:27 AM

Google Print - Wikipedia Print?

[EDITing in the Dark] I know I'm late to the party blogging this - had meetings and other things happening, but Google Print is online, and you have to login with your Google ID to get more info. You can also work around the current limit of pages that you are allowed to view (thanks Kim) by selecting "more results".

Posted at 12:26 AM

November 04, 2005

Time machine: a printed Wikipedia

[SpaghettiTech | A mouthful of technology] News, a printed version of Wikipedia could be soon available for the 'developing World'. The popular encyclopedia could also be burned onto CDs and DVDs to be read offline.

Posted at 12:55 PM

Open Source Textbooks?

[The Ed Tech Blog | Olympic ESD 114 Ed Tech Blog] "I think that Wikibooks and projects like it will challenge licensed textbooks in the same way that Linux (the open-source computer operating system) and other free software and licensing models are challenging the software world", said Wales. "I don't know where it's going, but things are definitely changing."

Posted at 12:54 PM

Wikipedia in Book Form

[Ink Scrawl] CNN reports that Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has said that entries from Wikipedia may soon be available in print for readers in the developing world.

Posted at 12:53 PM

wikipedia hard copy

[if:book] "A Better Wikipedia will require a print version....A print version would, for better or worse, establish Wikipedia as a cosmology of information and as a work presenting a state of knowledge."

Posted at 12:52 PM

Is Wikipedia fundamentally flawed? Sure, but it's no less useful for it.

[Allan Jenkins' Desirable Roasted Coffee] can create or edit a Wikipedia article, very few do. My notes are in storage (my study is, as I write, being jackhammered to make a bigger study for my partner and me), but Jimbo Wales, speaking at Reboot 7.0, said that just a few hundred authors are responsible for more than 75% of Wikipedia's content.

Posted at 12:51 PM

November 02, 2005

Wikipedia Traffic Is Trouncing The New York Times

[Micro Persuasion] Check out this graph... Technorati Tags: newyorktimes, nyt, nytimes, Wikipedia...

Posted at 01:24 PM

Wikipedia's long tail

[Joho the Blog] [Found it, thanks to a commenter: It's Peter Morville.] ) talking about Wikipedia's long tail, by which the person meant (I think) the articles that are rarely read or edited. The question was whether the quality of those articles is as good as that of the oft-edited ones.

Posted at 01:23 PM

Is Search Rank Group-think?

[MaisonBisson.com] Way back in April 1997, Jakob Nielsen tried to educate us on Zipf Distributions and the power law, and their relationship to the web. This is where discussions of the Chris Anderson’s Long Tail start, but the emphasis is on the whole picture, not just the many economic opportunities at the end of the tail.

Posted at 01:22 PM

I Love Wikipedia

[Geek Thoughts] The reason is simple, I just love it. Most often, when I need background information on something, I can just go there and I'll have a great article with photographs, maps, etc.

Posted at 01:19 PM

Printing Wikipedia

[Layer that May Be Described as Emergent] Entries from Wikipedia are going to be available in print from soon, particularly so that people in developing countries can benefit from them...

Posted at 01:19 PM

November 01, 2005

Mac Wiki Guide from MacRumors

[The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)] Looks like MacRumors has a few more tricks up their sleeve (besides the obvious), as they've launched a wiki Guide to all things Apple and Mac.

Posted at 12:09 PM

Society for New Communications Research - Society for New Communications Research Launches

[infOpinions? :: Public Relations] - October 31, 2005 - The Society for New Communications Research (http://www.sncr.org), a new international, non-profit think tank, was announced today. The group was formed to provide a forum for research and education and a source of expertise focused on the broad theoretical and practical implications surrounding new communications methodologies, tools and technologies.

Posted at 12:07 PM

Openpedia.org > November 30, 2005

Wiki Comparison

Gollum, The WIkipedia Browser

November 30, 2005

Wiki Comparison

Gollum, The WIkipedia Browser

Gollum, the Wikipedia Browser (in a browser)

"Swiftboating"

Wikipedia: Can it be trusted?

November 26, 2005

Commissioning Editor

Wikipedia Enters the Top Ten Online News/Info Sites

I am a processor

Wapedia: Wikipedia für unterwegs

Wikipedia’s Internet phenomenon

November 24, 2005

Download Wikipedia as XML

Running out of featured articles?

Aspergers

the next dictionary

The History and Customs of Thanksgiving Day

November 22, 2005

E-Mail so five minutes ago? I don't think so...

Grandma Merriam Ain't Getting Her Groove Back

Wikipedia Rocks

Wikipedia list of OpenSource tools

Steve Ruble’s latest hacks - a suggestion

November 18, 2005

Wikipedia as a Source for Sources

Update To Ajax Tagger Verision 2

Fresh vs. Relevant

November 08, 2005

Family Wiki

Attack of the Wiki Spammers

From Keyra Agustina to Vampire Watermelons: The Wikipedia

Yahoo Context Search Was down

Nathan Kaiser, fact-checker

November 05, 2005

Spate of Key Items Found re RSS, Tagging, Blogs and Wikis

The art of vandalism on Wiki

BusinessWeek Podcast

Rating Wikipedia

Top 10 Blog Design mistakes

Eid ul-Fitr (or Hari Raya Puasa)

Apple Mac Wikis

The new MarsEdit programmer

Borderline Wikis

Wiki for Singapore Policy

The network is my computer

choosing a personal note taking wiki

System administration is a conversation

Exploding head syndrome [del.icio.us]

Google Print - Wikipedia Print?

November 04, 2005

Time machine: a printed Wikipedia

Open Source Textbooks?

Wikipedia in Book Form

wikipedia hard copy

Is Wikipedia fundamentally flawed? Sure, but it's no less useful for it.

November 02, 2005

Wikipedia Traffic Is Trouncing The New York Times

Wikipedia's long tail

Is Search Rank Group-think?

I Love Wikipedia

Printing Wikipedia

November 01, 2005

Mac Wiki Guide from MacRumors

Society for New Communications Research - Society for New Communications Research Launches

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