Feedster shook a little bit this week. Co-founder and CTO Scott Johnson is moving on. Best wishes to you in your next endeavor, Scott!
He is looking for part-time contract work, by the way.
Addendum 12/19: Co-founder Fran
A Newslib post yielded some links to more news about Wikipedia.
Jimmy Wales has an interview with BusinessWeek.
The Guardian wonders about the wisdom of crowds.
Gary Price discusses the encyclopedia.
sj posts about Wikipedia Review, a forum for Wikipedia complaints that does not seem to be affiliated with the Wikimedia Foundation.
Addenda: The Chronicle of Higher Education examines Wikiversity.
National [...]
I’m in the Harvard University Library’s Librarians’ Assembly Fall Meeting. The topic is one we’ve been discussing on and off: “What are librarians learning and is it what they need?”
Although notices have been going out about the meeting for a while, I forgot what the topic is. Today, I finished reading some of the articles [...]
The journal Nature publishes a news item comparing Encyclopedia Britannica with Wikipedia and finds them close in accuracy. Of the examined science articles, Britannica’s content averaged about 3 errors per article. Wikipedia’s averaged about 4. The study doesn’t sound very scientific: it’s a very small sample of content on both of the encyclopedia’s Web sites.
"As [...]
Jenny, the Shifted Librarian, and Jessamyn of librarian.net are conversing about speakers having to pay to speak at conferences. Jenny feels frustrated because she thinks she shouldn’t have to pay to register for the Public Libraries Association Conference in Boston this March to make a presentation on its last day.
I agree that it is quite [...]
I’m at the Berkman Center’s lunch talk with Derek Slater about his collaborative research on playlists and consumer-to-consumer recommendation systems.
Known for the blog A Copyfighter’s Musings, Derek has the distinction of being the first undergraduate at Harvard College to be a Berkman Fellow. He’s graduating very soon, so this presentation is his last hurrah.
He did [...]
The New York Times’s Robert Mackey examines Rocketboom, a video blog (vlog) with an audience that rivals the popularity of some television news programs.
Steve Garfield introduced me to Rocketboom during a blog meeting. I don’t watch it or any other vlog regularly. (Yet.)
I’ve been pondering that old question about what to put on an about page again. If you could ask me one question (within reason–there are certain things I refuse to answer), preferably about blogging, my career, news or special librarianship, or something related to my professional persona, what would it be?
After all the talk about what happened to John Seigenthaler’s Wikipedia entry, the mischief-maker speaks out. Brian Chase said he created Seigenthaler’s entry as a joke for a co-worker. He claims he had no idea people used Wikipedia seriously and that his joke would cause so much trouble. After learning Seigenthaler was looking for [...]
A news article in the journal Nature looks at how scientists use new Web-based communication tools.
"The emerging web is largely being shaped by dynamic interactions between users in real time. But many researchers still see publications in the formal scientific literature as ‘the’ means of scientific communication. Although the traditional published paper is accepted as [...]