If you pay the fees to register for my blog talk in Madison, Wisconsin, on Wednesday, September 15, and get there around 6 pm, you’ll get free dinner.
(Okay, well, it isn’t exactly free food because you have to pay to register for the meeting, but I’m trying to encourage people to come to this talk [...]
Bill Ives writes about his concern for facts in Wikipedia, which are also some of my concerns. I went to a Wikipedia meetup a few weeks ago and mostly listened to the Wikipedians talk about different issues related to the wiki. I found it, well, rather fascinating, actually. (I can’t believe I’m admitting that in [...]
I only have a vague idea of who actually reads this blog. I know some of its readers are either part of the blog group that meets at the Berkman Center or other people who blog on this server. Many of those people might already know some of this background about the blog server. I [...]
This news is pretty important for a number of reasons. First, let me remind you that there are at least two major kinds of feeds out there: RSS feeds and Atom feeds. For a while, RSS feeds seemed to be the standard, then someone came along with an Atom feed. I’m summarizing and simplifying here [...]