Archive for October 25th, 2005

Film about the Library

Tuesday, October 25th, 2005

While looking for vlogging, er, video blogging librarians, I discovered vlogger Josh Leo’s film about the library, which is also available via Our Media. I admit getting a kick out of the opening sequence. Hasn’t everyone wanted to do that with the study carrels in the library?
This film is another great reason why it’s important [...]

Berkman Hosts Joshua Schachter of Del.icio.us Tuesday (10/25)

Tuesday, October 25th, 2005

David Weinberger’s Web of Ideas series at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society features Del.icio.us founder Joshua Schachter on Tuesday evening, October 25, from 6 pm to 7:30 pm. Free pizza! Del.icio.us is a popular social bookmark tool featuring tagging, a type of metatdata for the people by the people. His talk, which is open [...]

A Cool Idea for a Web Site Relaunch

Tuesday, October 25th, 2005

MassINC, the Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth, will give tours of its redesigned Web site from the Massachusetts State House on Wednesday, October 26. They want to bring their new site to the people who use it or could benefit from it the most by taking it on the road. They’re even providing coffee [...]

Wikipedia Strives to be Neutral; Its Contributors Aren’t Always

Tuesday, October 25th, 2005

This Globe and Mail article linked above describes a situation where someone supposedly from one airline company wrote some bad things about a competitor in Wikipedia. As soon as Wikipedians noticed what happened, they removed the edit.


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