I knew it - Metaverse runs on MySQL!
[domas mituzas: vaporware, inc.] Central Intelligence Corporation (created after the merger of Library of Congress and CIA, as they were duplicating each other anyway) operates huge resources of user-provided content, like Flickr, YouTube or Wikipedia [MySQL powered again]. Though it had somewhat better interfaces and APIs, I guess that is what Web 5.0 is about ;-)
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Time to Re-write Our Science Textbooks -- AGAIN
[Brian Mull] About two weeks ago, Clarence Fisher told us that we would need to re-write our science textbooks because of the discovery of three new planets. Well...
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Posted at 02:11 AM
August 25, 2006
I knew it - Metaverse runs on MySQL!
[domas mituzas: vaporware, inc.] Central Intelligence Corporation (created after the merger of Library of Congress and CIA, as they were duplicating each other anyway) operates huge resources of user-provided content, like Flickr, YouTube or Wikipedia [MySQL powered again]. Though it had somewhat better interfaces and APIs, I guess that is what Web 5.0 is about ;-)
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Posted at 02:16 AM
Time to Re-write Our Science Textbooks -- AGAIN
[Brian Mull] About two weeks ago, Clarence Fisher told us that we would need to re-write our science textbooks because of the discovery of three new planets. Well...
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Posted at 02:11 AM
August 23, 2006
Free, clean and constant energy?
[ Tom Raftery’s I.T. views] I saw a post on Pat Phelan’s blog today about Steorn which sounded a little incredible, so I looked a little deeper into it. The background is that an...
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Posted at 02:17 AM
Pat Kenny hits Wikipedia!
[ RunningWithBulls.com - The curse of Sanfermin] When I went to have a look at the Pat Kenny page just now, I see: =========== Locked. Because of vandalism, editing of this article by...
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Posted at 02:13 AM
August 21, 2006
Step Two
[Twenty Steps - How to make a million online or die trying] Given the nature of the Twenty Steps Challenge, the odds can only ever be evens as the other participant has to have the same chance of winning as you so I only had one coin. He called none - I actually had the coin in my hand so I won.
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Posted at 02:10 AM
Wikidot.com
[DENNISBULLOCK.COM] Simply edit content, click save and your changes are published within seconds. Here is a screenshot of an example of what their hosted Wiki looks like: Here are their top reasons to host a site at Wikidot: 100% free hosting - you can set up and use your Site for free!
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Posted at 02:09 AM
August 19, 2006
The word "Enterprise"...the Rodney Dangerfield of the new media
[The Ponderings of Woodrow] Why is it that enterprise-related news, discussions and analysis in the blogosphere takes such a backseat to the latest over-funded "me too" VC-backed...
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Posted at 02:13 AM
Mea Culpa
[ Stately Barrett Manor - Julie's Web Journal] All I did was make a good faith attempt to clear up a misconception regarding a Wikipedia article. The result was one user unleashing a string of horrid vitriol on practically everyone involved in the edit.
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Posted at 02:10 AM
August 15, 2006
15 websites that changed the world
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Posted at 02:15 AM
Entertainment, In Whatever Form
[The Tao of Mac - HomePage] Banks' Use Of Weapons I'm now engrossed in the utterly, utterly fascinating The Lady Tasting Tea, one of my off-beat reading recommendations that is really paying off - and which I'd like to thank Paul Hoffman for. The history of Statistics is a lot more fascinating than what people would ordinarily think, even those such as myself who were wantonly exposed to its most venomous manifestations during our studies.
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Posted at 02:13 AM
August 13, 2006
Feelings”¦.
[Twofish’s Blog] A lot of this is being influenced by the Chinese philosopher Dai Zhen, who spent a lot of time trying to construct a moral philosophy based on empathy, and who argued that the Cheng-Chu school had erred in viewing feelings and emotions as things to be removed to get at one’s inner goodness. I’ve been starting to read more of Dai Zhen.
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Posted at 02:18 AM
When Founder Die
[Ideas For Dozens] In a recent talk at the Long Now Foundation, called Vision: Wikipedia and the Future of Free Culture, Whales explained the intricate collaborative processes involved in maintaining Wikipedia as well as the important role his dictatorial power has sometimes played in maintaining them -- like by promising to ban a large group of skin heads who were plotting to take over the site to twist it to their own message. Whales is skittish about the personal exercise of this kind of power and has gradually worked to wrap it in institutions that involve representative, democratically chosen, groups of Wikipedians in making all important decisions.
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Posted at 02:15 AM
August 11, 2006
"The Current Negotiated Truth"
[Just a Gwai Lo | fire alarms kill dreams] A month ago I read Digital Maoism, an article by Jaron Lanier which argued that because so many in the Silicon Valley (and elsewhere) have an unquestioning belief that technology is here to solve all our problems, that extreme views (including, as he argues, collectivism) have mainstream appeal among technologists. I had a hard time with his argument that anonymity and the neutral viewpoint on Wikipedia leads to either bad writing or persistent inaccuracies on the site, but listening to Open Source's episode with Lanier, James Surowiecki and David Weinberger I found myself agreeing with Weinberger the most (Surowiecki and Lanier mostly agreed with each other, disagreeing mostly on emphasis and to which cases the "wisdom of crowds" applies).
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Posted at 02:12 AM
Wikipedia on your Mobile Phone
[Clicknoise] According to Sevenval’s website, the mobile Wikipedia is accessible in all currently available languages, and it auto-detects language settings on mobile phones that browse to the URL.
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Posted at 02:10 AM
August 09, 2006
Wikipedia
[two and two makes five] It seems that for 1/2 of what I google, the Wikipedia page is in the top 3 hits, which is usually nice because most pages provide a decent overview and starting point for the information I'm looking for. Perhaps what is missing is a preservation of the skills involved in critical examination of multiple texts...
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Posted at 02:14 AM
Education is life - John Dewey and the Chinese-American academic family
[Twofish’s Blog] The educational ideas of John Dewey and a popular belief in the importance of science are something that are more influential in China than in the West. In the case of science, China didn’t experience the counter-culture anti-science/technology backlash of the 1960’s, and in the case of John Dewey, he didn’t become the target of an anti-liberal educational backlash in the 1980’s.
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Posted at 02:12 AM
August 07, 2006
At the airport - Olin College
[Twofish’s Blog] I made the comment to a reporter that is was easier for me to start my own university than to go into traditional academia. This is quite true. I talked to someone from Olin College which is a startup college. The amount of seed capital necessary to start up the university was $500,000 and 300 students which is tiny in the corporate world. What Olin College did have is name-power. You don’t need too much money to start the university, but you do need people with high academic status, once you have people with status, you can get the money.
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Posted at 02:12 AM
Getting into freelance academia
[Twofish’s Blog] I’m looking at the road ahead of me, and it looks bumpy and difficult. It appears that becoming a freelance academic is the easiest way of me to do scholarship, but its never easy being a pioneer. There is part of me that relishes the excitement of doing something new and difficult, but there is another part of me that resents having to do this. After a short time, the novelty wears off, and you find that there is remarkably little praise and glory. So why do it?
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Posted at 02:11 AM
August 05, 2006
Terrifying thoughts from the Wikimania speakers' lounge
[Betsy Devine: Funny Ha-Ha or Funny Peculiar? : Making trouble today for a better tomorrow...] That's my excuse for finding the Wikimania Speakers' Lounge, though I was sure that everybody but me would be way too cool to hang out here.
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Posted at 02:16 AM
Wikimania II
[WebProNews - Breaking eBusiness News] Great to be in Boston at the second Wikimania, the Wikipedia community conference. Keynoting at the first one in Frankfurt was an honor and joy.
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Posted at 02:14 AM
August 03, 2006
Elena Filatova
[darkthirty] I updated Wikipedia to include a link to the Swedish publisher of Elena Filatova's photographs from Chernobyl.
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Posted at 02:12 AM
Wikipedia fever
[Ruminations] , front: I started a Wikipedia entry on the late Reg Bolton this week, which piqued my interest in contributing more, so I finished translating an article on a Balinese king, Anak Agung Pandji Tisna, that had been marked as needing work. It was very satisfying!
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