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 [Corante.com] Wikipedia, academia and Seigenthaler. Many-to-Many:: As the conversation progressed, someone pointed out that Wikipedia’s policies and platform supports Seigenthaler’s concern that “irresponsible vandals [can] write anything they want about anybody.” Much to my complete and utter joy, Jimmy Wales responded with a fantastic structural comparison that i felt should be surfaced from the mailing list and shared to the world at large:

[Zephoria.org] apophenia: Wikipedia, academia and Seigenthaler: But they felt as though it was a problem that Wikipedia would allow for a man to be defamed. As the conversation progressed, someone pointed out that Wikipedia's policies and platform supports Seigenthaler's concern that "irresponsible vandals [can] write anything they want about anybody." Much to my complete and utter joy, Jimmy Wales responded with a fantastic structural comparison that i felt should be surfaced from the mailing list and shared to the world at large:

 [geosciblog] While We Continue to Sleep: Shortly before the book's publication, the Council on American-Islamic Relations issued two press releases insulting Durán and demanding that his book be withheld until a group of CAIR-approved academics could review it "for stereotypical or inaccurate content.""

 [It's all good] Academic blogging: The author, Robert Boynton, a non-blogging academic, raises some interesting points about academic antipathy to blogging. This one reminded me of the debate among librarians' about the worth(lessness) of Wikipedia.

[Feral Scholar] Gender & Power - A TUTORIAL, Postmodernism: “Although biological determinism had been criticized quite early in the women’s movement as a method of explaining man’s patriarchal dominance by the biological difference between the genders, the postmodernists tabooed even the use of such concepts as ”˜woman’, ”˜mother’, ”˜land’, ”˜patriarchy’, ”˜capitalism’, and so on.  The fact that women have the capacity to bring forth children, that they can become mothers, is totally devalued, de-historicized and dematerialized. It is considered to be a mere biological accident which nowadays can be changed by biotechnology. The same applies to the category ”˜woman’.  The fact that most people appear in this world as male or female is not accepted as a given, because it is possible today physically to change one’s gender or one’s sexual orientation.  The gender discourse in particular contributed to the elimination of such categories as ”˜mother’, or ”˜woman’.  In this discourse ”˜sex’ as supposedly biologically determined and ”˜gender’ as culturally constructed are being separated and contraposed.  This results in the old schizophrenic situation that ”˜sex’ is again dehistoricized and declared a matter of biology only, which can be left to reproduction and genetic engineers, while ”˜gender’ becomes the ”˜higher’ affair, where culture plays the determining role. Old dualism in new garb.”

 [spirit farmer] What does "missional" mean? As I was in the semin...: As I was in the seminary lecture the other day, I used the word "missional" a few times. After one of these times, one of the students asked me to clarify what I meant by that term.

 [Corante.com] Many-to-Many:: As the conversation progressed, someone pointed out that Wikipedia’s policies and platform supports Seigenthaler’s concern that “irresponsible vandals [can] write anything they want about anybody.” Much to my complete and utter joy, Jimmy Wales responded with a fantastic structural comparison that i felt should be surfaced from the mailing list and shared to the world at large:

[Zephoria.org] apophenia: But they felt as though it was a problem that Wikipedia would allow for a man to be defamed. As the conversation progressed, someone pointed out that Wikipedia's policies and platform supports Seigenthaler's concern that "irresponsible vandals [can] write anything they want about anybody." Much to my complete and utter joy, Jimmy Wales responded with a fantastic structural comparison that i felt should be surfaced from the mailing list and shared to the world at large:

 [Planetkm.org] Planet KM: I reminded academics that Wikipedia provides information to people who donâ™t have access to books and that mostly-good information is far better than none.

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