I had the distinct honor today of introducing David Weinberger before his plenary talk at, well, Wikimania.
I really enjoy his talks. He started with a really funny set of slides based partly on the presentation style Lawrence Lessig uses and making fun of presenters. He’s talking about knowledge and how we know things. It’s similar [...]
Just for fun, I looked at some of the Wikimania press coverage.
Boston Herald: Cambridge welcomes Web’s wacky world of ‘Wiki’
The Washington Post: It’s on Wikipedia, So It Must Be True
A Guardian blog: Wales: let’s make Wikipedia more accurate
The Lowell Sun: A ‘WIKID’ DEBATE: Meehan at center of nonstop ‘edit war’
The Associated Press: Wikipedia Founder Seeks [...]
The Filipino Librarian, who managed to return to the area for Wikimania, has many posts and photos about the conference. Thanks for sharing, Von!
Remember a few weeks ago I blogged about some recent studies about computer addiction and social isolation? I heard a piece on National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition Sunday about a woman who researched people who are intense fans and discovered that perhaps it’s not that we’re more isolated, but that we’re involved in different groups [...]
Frederick Kilgour, the founder of OCLC, a developer of the shared catalog WorldCat, and a former Harvard librarian, died on July 31. Somehow I missed the news until I heard a bit on National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition Sunday this morning. Here are links to a few obituaries:
Library Journal
The New York Times
Weekend Edition Sunday (The [...]