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Flickr field guide

[Heraclitean Fire] There's a group on Flickr called Field Guide: Birds of the World. Pretty self-explanatory, really - they're trying to form a collection of photos that...

OpenCommentary

[Xrossblog] Mazap spricht das an, was ich auch schon seit Monaten durchdenke und wo ich bisher noch keinen vernünftigen Ansatzpunkt gefunden habe, wie man so etwas beginnen kann (ich bin da Deutsch. Nicht “erst Anfangen und dann die Fehler ausbügeln”, sondern “Erstmal gut durchdenken und wenn’s einigermaßen vernünftig durchdacht ist auf die Welt loslassen”).

Posted at 02:31 PM

December 29, 2005

Flickr field guide

[Heraclitean Fire] There's a group on Flickr called Field Guide: Birds of the World. Pretty self-explanatory, really - they're trying to form a collection of photos that...

Posted at 02:33 PM

OpenCommentary

Posted at 02:31 PM

+Urgent: Darwikinismus droht gelöscht zu werden

[Paperholic] Die Theorie des Darwikinismus im Bereich der Wikipedistik ist noch nicht ausgereift, aber vielversprechend: Fitness kann nicht einfach durch Stabilität und Attraktivität substituiert werden - letztere sind nur zwei von weit mehr Indikatoren. Gut vorstellbar, dass aber gerade in der Swiss Blogosphere ausreichend Fachwissen vorhanden wäre, um genauere Ausführungen zu ermöglichen.

Posted at 02:31 PM

The Probabilist Age

[tallskinnykiwi.com] Chris Anderson of The Long Tail Blog has a good post on The Probalist Age and the Wikipedia vs Britannica debate. Chris has also found a way to cheat Google - by using unpopular keywords on his ultra-lame Google Ad, he gets thousands of page impressions but because there are no click-throughs, he doesn't have to pay.

Posted at 02:29 PM

December 24, 2005

Factually Speaking (Village Voice)

[Depraved Librarian] "It's our goal to be as good as Britannica [britannica.com] across the board," said Jimmy Wales, founder of the openly collaborative online encyclopedia, responding to a recent surge of criticism from educators and other cultural gatekeepers concerned with the increasing popularity of Wikipedia's intellectual free-for-all. Soon after, the science journal

Posted at 03:05 PM

The similarities of Web 2.0 and the emerging church

[tautoko int.] And I truly think that we have something to give to the web 2.0 people. I have tried to define web 2.0 and the underlying principles in the last weeks and my knowledge of the emerging church has really helped my to broaden the horizon and understand stuff like Wikipedia a bit better.

Posted at 03:04 PM

Wikipedia, academia and Seigenthaler

[Groovy Links] Wikipedia is nowhere near perfect, but as a free resource it’s fucking amazing. And I’ve read it more than I ever touched the full Britannica collection my parents had when I was a kid. [via]

Posted at 03:03 PM

wikipedia and 'alien logic:' the debate gets spiritual

[if:book] If you like Mitchell Stephen's book-blog about the history of atheism, you might want to compare Mitchell's approach to that of "The Long Tail," a book-blog written by Chris Anderson of Wired Magazine. Like Stephens, Anderson is trying to work out his ideas for a future book online: his book looks at the technology-driven atomizaton of our economy and culture, a phenomenon Anderson (and Wired) doesn't seem particularly troubled by.

Posted at 03:01 PM

danah boyd on the Seigenthaler-Wikipedia Controversy

[Thinking About Technology] I reminded academics that Wikipedia provides information to people who don’t have access to books and that mostly-good information is far better than none. Most importantly, i reminded academics that the vast majority of articles on Wikipedia are super solid and...

Posted at 03:01 PM

December 16, 2005

Defending the Wiki World Vision

[Dennis Dunleavy] After calling into question the reliability of using WikiPedia as an online reference resource, a study conducted by the journal Nature found only...

Posted at 04:32 PM

Wikipedia: Sue or Learn?

[Ponderance] The least useful, most pathetic and childish response is WikipediaClassAction.org who are trying to organise disgruntled people who are unhappy with their entries to sue the Wikipedia Foundation. That achieves nothing and is a sad indication of a culture more inclined to sue than to think.

Posted at 04:31 PM

Test of Wikipedia Lacks Significant Samples

[THE TENSION] Now in the news as a result of that story is the results of Nature.com's test comparing 42 science articles in Wikipedia to matching articles in Encyclopedia Britannica. The news stories about the test paint Wikipedia in a favorable way, much to the glee of bloggers all over the Web.

Posted at 04:29 PM

Wikipedia is A-OK

[ Binary Bonsai] The way I see it, I'd rather live in a democracy than an oligarchy, despite all the weird shit you have to listen to in a democracy.

Posted at 04:28 PM

December 10, 2005

Wikipedia's Paradox

[TechBeat- BusinessWeek Online] I previously proposed this as a baseline project (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Baseline_revision) where we basically take a revision of the article and analyse it for accuracy, neutrality, readibility and comprehensiveness. We then refer journalists, etc, to this revision as the best example of our work.

Posted at 02:59 PM

Today’s Blogmarks

[New Trommetter Times] "Dean’s take on Iraq makes even less sense than the scream in Iowa: Both are uninformed and unhelpful," Jim Marshall, a Democratic congressman from Georgia, told the Post.

Posted at 02:57 PM

Wikipedia is dead, long live wikipedia

[David Davies’ Weblog] The very fact that the podcasting entry was found to have been altered and that the alterations were at best a distortion and at worst, false, is a great example of peer review in action. The anonymous editor allegedly giving himself a more prominent role in the history of podcasting has been shown to be inaccurate by those who also possess knowledge in this area.

Posted at 02:56 PM

where we've been, where we're going

[if:book] This past week at if:book we've been thinking a lot about the relationship between this weblog and the work we do. We decided that while if:book has done a fine job reflecting and provoking the conversations we have at the Institute, we wanted to make sure that it also seems as coherent to our readers as it does to us.

Posted at 02:55 PM

Extraordinary Rendition - America Officially a Terrorist Nation Under George W. Bush

[tabacco.blog-city.com] His lawsuit comes at a time when the Bush administration’s secret practices are coming under intense scrutiny in Europe, investigations underway throughout the region over the CIA kidnappings, as well as the possibility that the U.S. has operated secret prisons inside Europe. ABC News reported earlier this week the U.S. was operating two such prisons as recently as last month.

Posted at 02:54 PM

December 08, 2005

Today’s Links: i love wikipedia (grow grow grow)

[theory.isthereason] For Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, last week was a tough one. Now he’s going to change the ground rules for the popular anyone-can-contribute encyclopedia because of it.

Posted at 10:14 AM

In Defense of Wikipedia

[The Blind Scholar] In several research papers I’ve written at least one of my sources comes from Wikipedia. The reason for this is that often I’m using Wikipedia as a source of background information on let’s say a government agency or at least once as background on a person in recent history.

Posted at 10:11 AM

What's a Wiki Good For?

[Freshblog: Blogger Hacks, Categories for Blogger and other Blog Tips, Tricks & Tools] Times wiki that was overrun with adult content and a recent controversial biography of John Siegenthaler, I would like to suggest that a wiki is best used as a tool for communication in large communities which are bound and defined by other means... (within corporations, for example, where contributors are accountable to one another by way of the organisation) but that the open-access to editing format is vulnerable when editors have no other obligation to one another.

Posted at 10:10 AM

Right tool, wrong fight

[RatcliffeBlog””Mitch's Open Notebook] If the purpose of Wikipedia is only to create a forum for changing entries, I suppose it would be sufficient to say "Big deal, I can change this entry." That, however, is not a viable reference system, it's just more work for people who need access to information quickly and conveniently. If this is the purpose of Wikipedia—to provide a venue for anonymous debates about facts and interpretations of facts—then the company should stop licensing the content to other sites as a "reference" source.

Posted at 10:08 AM

December 03, 2005

Of Bloggercon and Podcasting

[Epeus' epigone - Kevin Marks weblog] I did previously reinsert this reference to my Bloggercon demo with citations, and I don't want to get into an edit war. Suggestions welcomed.

Posted at 08:07 PM

Wikipedia Browser

[UNN - Usayd Network News] Quite a cool thing from 'Harold Hanek', a Wikipedia browser. It basically allows you to browse Wikipedia faster online using AJAX technology.

Posted at 08:05 PM

When Wiki Writers Attack

[The Republic of T.] Multiply it by the number of sites that post Wikipedia’s content, and the ever expanding number of blogs and online forums, and the personal anti-defamation tactics mentioned above can become a full-time job if you’re famous enough. Unfortunately, in an age when almost anyone is armed with the ability to spread information or disinformation far and wide, that kind of eternal vigilance will probably remain a necessity for the foreseeable future.

Posted at 08:03 PM

Openpedia.org > December 29, 2005

Flickr field guide

OpenCommentary

December 29, 2005

Flickr field guide

OpenCommentary

+Urgent: Darwikinismus droht gelöscht zu werden

The Probabilist Age

December 24, 2005

Factually Speaking (Village Voice)

The similarities of Web 2.0 and the emerging church

Wikipedia, academia and Seigenthaler

wikipedia and 'alien logic:' the debate gets spiritual

danah boyd on the Seigenthaler-Wikipedia Controversy

December 16, 2005

Defending the Wiki World Vision

Wikipedia: Sue or Learn?

Test of Wikipedia Lacks Significant Samples

Wikipedia is A-OK

December 10, 2005

Wikipedia's Paradox

Today’s Blogmarks

Wikipedia is dead, long live wikipedia

where we've been, where we're going

Extraordinary Rendition - America Officially a Terrorist Nation Under George W. Bush

December 08, 2005

Today’s Links: i love wikipedia (grow grow grow)

In Defense of Wikipedia

What's a Wiki Good For?

Right tool, wrong fight

December 03, 2005

Of Bloggercon and Podcasting

Wikipedia Browser

When Wiki Writers Attack

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