As always, Garrett has an amazing wealth of stuff in his weekly Library News & Notes. I couldn’t find a permalink for this week’s edition, though.
Here are some of the highlights. I myself don’t know where to begin reading.
Credible Web? It’s where we click most: http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0319/p17s01-stct.html
Dusting Off the Archive for the Web: [...]
Garrett let me know about a manual for editing Wikipedia from O’Reilly. Since the title indicates it’s the missing manual, does that mean when you purchase it, it magically disappears?
RTFM. (WOTTA?) (Mom, the “f” is for “fine.”)
“Agence France Presse banned its reporters from using Facebook and Wikipedia as sources last week, as news organizations still struggle to safely use online (re)sources,” according to journalism.co.uk
“Some newspapers picked up pictures on Facebook about Mr Bhutto, which turned out to be fake.”
Clarifying this point, Lesourd said that journalists couldn’t use these sites as sole [...]
nbsp;Makeuseof.com had a posting on how to install Wikipedia on some Ipods:
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-install-wikipedia-on-your-ipod/
Here’s some nifty Wikipedia humor for you: “A different Wikipedia article in every can …”
It must be time to eat …
Here is the outline of the presentation I gave at the ASIST Annual Meeting on Wednesday, October 24, 2007. Tasked with discussing corporate blogs and wikis, I talked about some recent developments in those areas and used Renesys’ use of two blogs and an internal wiki to illustrate what people can do with wikis.
Compared to [...]
Blogs and Wikis in the Corporate World
American Society for Information Science and Technology Annual Meeting
Jessica Baumgart
Jack Vinson
Jordan Frank
Christina Pikas
Kris Liberman
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
I used Renesys’ weblogs and wiki to provide concrete examples of why and how corporations use the tools.
Jack Vinson of Knowledge Jolt with Jack talked about community and how communities use the tools [...]
Garrett pointed me to this New Scientist article about changes to Wikipedia to try to increase the quality of the content by making only edits by trusted people live immediately. While an effort to decrease vandalism and improve the overall quality of the content, some people fear many contributors—especially the ones who tend to stumble [...]
The early bird registration rates for the 2007 ASIS&T Annual Meeting ends on Friday September 21, 2007. It was extended of the short time between Labor Day and the early cut off date. I can’t go because I have to attend the Digital Commonwealth program.
j, Christina Pikas, Jack Vinson and Jordan Frank are [...]
Garrett sent me a link to this incredibly informative article from The Onion about some challenges to detecting vandalism in Wikipedia’s Dada article.
(For those of you unfamiliar with The Onion, I should note that it’s a humorous newspaper.)