Archive for November, 2006

Jay Rosen & Open Source Journalism

Monday, November 20th, 2006

Somehow, I managed to forget about Jay Rosen’s appearance at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society last Monday. Luckily, Steve Garfield and the Berkman Center have some video of the event. Maybe I can watch it soon.
Jay is a noted journalism professor and blogger who has some great ideas about how journalists can tap [...]

10 Cool Firefox Extensions

Sunday, November 19th, 2006

C|Net has a bit on 10 Firefox 2 extensions.
From Garrett’s newsletter

Internet Routing Behavior on 9/11 (.pdf)

Saturday, November 18th, 2006

Talk about the importance of strategic disaster planning. One of the presentations I attended at BarCamp Manchester was about BGP (border gateway protocol) and Internet routers. Jim Cowie and Shimon Rura of Renesys gave an overview of how the Internet works on a technical level while discussing Renesys’ work. (Yes, this is the same Shimon [...]

BarCamp Manchester, 11/18, 10a-5p

Friday, November 17th, 2006

Remember how fun BarCamp Boston was? There’s a smaller version happening in Manchester, New Hampshire, Saturday, November 18, from 10 am until 5 pm at Amoskeag Business Incubator.
Addenda 11/18: It seems like every time I’m driving around Manchester, I’m looking for Elm Street and I end up lost on Pine Street instead. As we all [...]

Access to Wikipedia from China

Thursday, November 16th, 2006

Berkman has a bit on their site about access to Wikipedia from China because of Hiawatha Bray’s Boston Globe article about the topic. An article rich with Berkman connections (Fellows Jimbo Wales and Rebecca MacKinnon and executive director John Palfrey), it discusses some of the issues about China’s efforts to blog certain Internet access.
At blog [...]

Reading Humor: Writing the Perfect Book

Wednesday, November 15th, 2006

Bucky of Get Fuzzy has some ideas about what would make the perfect book.
Thanks for sharing the humor, RKO.

Daypop is Down

Monday, November 13th, 2006

Good thing I check links before presentations. Daypop is on my list of search engines to mention for blogs and feeds. Unfortunately, it is down in what might be a rather serious manner:
"After adding a bunch of submitted sites, Daypop no longer has enough memory to calculate the Top 40 and other Top pages. If [...]

Gannett Shifts Newsrooms Around

Sunday, November 12th, 2006

According to a Wired article, Gannett, which publishes USA Today and a number of dailies in America is shifting around newsrooms and priorities to better use citizen journalism and online tools:
"The initiative emphasizes four goals: Prioritize local news over national news; publish more user-generated content; become 24-7 news operations, in which the newspapers do less [...]

Not Your Children’s Abecedary: Silverstein’s Uncle Shelby’s ABZ Book

Saturday, November 11th, 2006

My parents stocked the house with Shel Silverstein books, however, they seem to have missed one. A few of us started talking about Silverstein last night and before I knew it, someone handed me Uncle Shelby’s ABZ Book to read. Not your average child’s abecedary, it appeals greatly to my dark and dry sense of [...]

Scholarpedia

Thursday, November 9th, 2006

Scholarpedia
Scholarpedia is the free peer reviewed encyclopedia written by scholars from all around the world. Scholarpedia feels and looks like Wikipedia – the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Both allow visitors to review and modify articles simply by clicking on the edit this article link. However, Scholarpedia differs from Wikipedia in some very [...]


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