A very kind e-mail from a reader wishing me happy holidays made me reflect on how many people I’ve met via this blog and the community that’s formed around it. I feel like I know more of you readers–virtually or otherwise–this year than I did last year, so wishing you happy holidays, season’s greetings, joyous […]
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 […]
It looks like the URL for Newslib, the discussion list for the Special Libraries Association News Division, has a new URL: http://lists.unc.edu/read/?forum=newslib. Access may be restricted to subscribers only. It’s possible to search the list’s archives and manage accounts via this Web site. Barbara Semonche, Newslib’s manager, provides more information about the list.
While I was scoping out EchoDitto, I saw a note about a new citizen journalism entry in Wikipedia.
I met Joshua of EchoDitto at the Votes, Bits, & Bytes conference and promised him I’d blog about EchoDitto because their work might interest some of you. They specialize in helping “non-profits, corporations, political candidates, elected officials and political organizations” harness Internet technologies, like wikis and weblogs, to work to their advantage, whether it’s raising […]
Scott Johnson of Feedster writes about deciding to hire Mike Rowehl after meeting him at BloggerCon III and spending some time with him.
Sometimes, it really is all in who you know and who you meet at conferences.