j's scratchpad

It seems like they have the wrong holiday. Shouldn’t the word be Christmahanukwanzaka?

Scott Johnson reports that because of connection issues, he hasn’t been able to judge the Feedster contest entries. He and Francois Schiettecatte hope to begin announcing winners next week.

After giving an update about recent Wikipedia news, sj, who wonders how his feed magically became known as the “Wiki Hut of Horror,” explores whether Wikipedia/the Wikipedia should be referred to as Wikipedia or the Wikipedia. I prefer Wikip myself, but have been told that’s improper.

With all the recent chatter about podcasting in the blogosphere, when I saw Podcast Alley and ipodder.org in the Librarians’ Index to the Internet’s New This Week, I thought I would (finally) point to them as examples of places to get podcasts.

Bob Stepno, who doesn’t look a day older from here (Happy Birthday, Bob!), discusses the Wikipedia entry on "citizen journalism" and why he made some of the changes to it that he did.
Words of note:
"I celebrated my birthday today by adding some text and a few links to that Wikipedia “citizen journalism” page. (Yup, I [...]