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http://many.corante.com [Many.corante.com] K5 Article on Wikipedia Anti-elitism. Many-to-Many:: "The Great Depression" definitely deserves an adjective in there but when we see slashdot.org and kuro5hin.org offered up as the two examples to show how this Big Flip was a watershed moment in the history of publishing, I'm not sure the online community should really be criticizing academia for its self-importance.

[Jgoodwin.net] LCC2400 » Blog Archive » Wikipedia Policy Statement: I think that he had a good point that Wikipedia is not a good reference because some articles “are the contested terrain of ”˜edit wars,’ political protest, or vandalism.” The point he made about when citing information to include the date and even time was a important and something I had not thought about, but I strongly agree. I also agree that Wikipedia is a good source for person information and even to compare with scholars, but is not a good tool for extended research and analytical purposes.

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http://piotrrcola.blogspot.com [My Ramblings] 色々な物: Yes, it sounds like a totally gay thing to say, but 20 minutes ago, when the waitress was handing me my food at OMA'S KITCHEN in Dobie, I started smiling very noticeably. I'm not quite sure why, but it must be the smell of Korean food that incites this.

[if:book] initial responses to MediaCommons: ...the more interesting thrust of the article, in my opinion, is the quite excellent point that open access systems won't work unless the people who might be contributing have some sort of motivation to spend vast amounts of time and energy on publishing to the Web. To this end, the author suggests pushing to have participation in wikis, blogs, and forums count for tenure.[...]If you're out there writing a blog or adding to a library wiki or doing volunteer reference through IRC or chat or IM, I'd strongly suggest you note URLs and take screenshots of your work.

[Dave’s Educational Blog] My Space At School Watch - What should we... : The boy has been sleeping on and off, and tonight he’s not sleeping so much and it’s bon’s turn to put him off into sleep. I’m gonna try and sneak a post into the evening…

[cityofsound] The Shock of the New World, with respect to the... : On the way towards today's fabulous Australian food culture, from those early starvation years, the colony witnessed a curious response to the available food of the land. Even given an understanding of how to live and eat well from the local environment around New South Wales, the desperate class structures erected by the settlers meant that exploiting the increasingly understood flora and fauna was suppressed in favour of an attempt to recreate British food on the other side of the world.

http://zhefrance.spaces.msn.com [zhefrance] It's A Whole New Web: Really Simple Syndication, or RSS, letspeople subscribe to blogs and other sites, so they get customizedbundles of material sent to them as they're created -- say, all thestories about Hurricane Katrina from The New York Times.A set of programming technologies collectively dubbed Ajax is alsoending the World Wide Wait, making Web applications almost as fast astraditional desktop programs. Some enterprising folks are playing Webdeejay.

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