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[The ITCOM Week] Oral citations to be part of wikipedia entries | The ITCOM Week: With Shiju Alex, a Malayalam Wikipedian , Mayur, one of the top 20 global contributors to the encyclopedia and Mohau Monaledi, a software developer from South Africa, Achal set out to find how easy it is to create original articles that discuss things that have not been discussed before and are particular to a linguistic culture.

[Peasant Muse] Peasant Muse: Wikipedia, Twitter & Mobility: Yet, interestingly, the solution proposed by 'People are Knowledge' seeks to form the same compromise between high and low mobility constructs that Wikipedia currently facilitates. While the oral nature of knowledge is indeed a high mobility construct, something that would be considered not subject to 'validity' under current guidelines, by making a low mobility recording of the oral knowledge and using that as the source cited for 'validation', the supporters behind 'People are Knowledge' are attempting to carve out an increased role for high mobility while also restricting the asynchronous effects produced by sourcing their 'validation' through low mobility constructs. 

[mattscape] mattscape: TEACHING: CCA Fall 2011: Video Game Cultures ...: The essay is designed to help you reflect, analyze, and discuss core themes and ideas encountered in Video Game Cultures, practice dealing with primary and secondary materials, and develop a background in the area that will allow you to pursue more in-depth research projects in the future, e.g. a thesis or a dissertation.

[BrothersJudd Blog] BrothersJudd Blog: REBUILDING THE TOWER OF BABEL:: For instance when we invented writing, written records and laws enabled a type of egalitarianism not possible in our cousins the primates, and and not present in oral cultures. The cooperation and coordination breed by irrigation and agriculture produced yet more impossible behaviors of anticipation and preparation, and sensitivity to the future.

[Publishing Perspectives] When Google Runs Out of Data to Exploit, What's Next? | Publishing ...: Will they now go after oral “property,” traditional culture and the deep scientific knowledge that may not be written, but which may have commercial possibilities? Just as the pharmaceutical companies trawl the world for natural products that can be patented and exploited commercially on a global basis, might we be seeing the beginnings of something similar: a search for non-tangible cultural and scientific knowledge that can be packaged and sold to anyone who can afford it?

[Informed Farmers] Brucellosis Diagnosis, Treatment and Occurrence « Informed Farmers: The gold standard treatment for adults is daily intramuscular injections of streptomycin 1 g for 14 days and oral doxycycline 100 mg twice daily for 45 days (concurrently). Gentamicin 5 mg/kg by intramuscular injection once daily for seven days is an acceptable substitute when streptomycin is not available or difficult to obtain.  Another widely used regimen is doxycycline plus rifampin twice daily for at least six weeks.

[Suite101: Women's Health Articles] Study Shows Pill Helps Women to Live Longer: Statistics Don't Tell ...: In short, it is premature to assume that OCPs confer (or conferred) improved longevity. It is always prudent to peer behind the statistical curtain.

[360 Cities – Middle East] Dubai Burj 05: Unfortunately for western historians, the pre-Islamic culture used an oral tradition for recordkeeping of its stories and legends, so there isn't much to go on from library sources.

[Culture Surfing, Creative Loafing Atlanta] Would Alan Moore's '1969' work without Wikipedia? | Atlanta A&E ...: Having changed audience's perception of superheroes in the 1980s, Moore uses Century to experiment with the relationship between popular fictions and music. 1910 featured several Kurt Weill pastiches, including a new version of "Mack the Knife," while 1969 culminates with a revised version of a controversial tune that topped the charts on both sides of the Atlantic.

[Web 2.0 Asia Blog] Web 2.0 Asia Blog: Hudong, China's Wikipedia, Obtains US$15.6 ...: Hudong.com previously received two rounds of fundings from institutions such as the famous American venture fund Draper Fisher Jurvetson in 2006 and 2009, with a total financing of US$30 million.

[Latest Blogs] Juggling From Wikipedia » Juggling Universe: Diagram-based notations are the clearest way to show juggling patterns on paper, but as they are based on images, their use is limited in text-based communication. Ladder diagrams track the path of all the props through time, where the less complicated causal diagrams only track the props that are in the air, and assumes that a juggler has a prop in each hand.

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