I don’t think I’ve ever written about Grazr in this space before, regardless of how long I’ve known about it or the fact that a friend of mine is a champion of the tool. He gave me a detailed demo, which makes me want to pull writing about it off the backburner and into reality. [...]
Garrett sent me a link to an AlterNet piece where Annalee Newitz tells her tale of what made her become a Wikipedia activist and why. Apparently, deletion can do more than just erase articles and history.
Thanks, Garrett!
In January, the radio show Weekend America highlighted a deletion debate on Wikipedia about an anchorwoman in Wichita, Kansas, that explores the bigger question of whether local members of the media, even well-known ones, should be included in the work. During her interview, anchor Susan Peters talks about how she would like whatever decision to [...]
Here’s a bit of humor for Friday from, er, an anonymous friend.
“It won’t matter. I’ve got Wikipedia.”
At blog group tonight, we had a demonstration of Povo, a cool tool that mixes wikis with maps to have a site of knowledge about the Boston area. They plan to expand to other cities at some point in the future. There are search and tagging capabilities people in the group really like. Check it [...]
The tragic shootings this past week at Virginia Tech pose huge challenges to campus communicators everywhere. It’s easy to look back at the events and critique how, where, and why communication efforts failed. It’s much more difficult to be in the situation itself and make decisions about what to do in a timely and effective [...]
The New England Chapter of ASIS&T will be hosting it’s annual awards
dinner on Thursday, May 10, 6-9PM
MIT Faculty Club, 50 Memorial Drive (Building E52)
Register now: http://www.neasist.org/pc/programs/20070510.html
Join us for cocktails, dinner, presentation of awards for Simmons
Student Member of the Year and NEASIST Chapter Member of the Year, and
an engaging presentation by Fernanda B. Viégas and Martin [...]
I’ll be talking with some educators from the country of Georgia about Web 2.0 kinds of things (blogs, wikis, sites where people can share other content, social networking sites, bookmarking sites, etc.). I know about a lot of the popular and good sites in America and among English speakers. I would be grateful for any [...]
The International Herald Tribune reports that a former Wikipedia editor used fake credentials. “Under the name Essjay, the contributor edited thousands of Wikipedia entries and once was one of the few people with the authority to deal with vandalism and to arbitrate disputes between authors. To the Wikipedia world, Essjay was a [...]
Garrett’s weekly newsletter includes this Harvard Crimson article mentioning how several teachers use Wikipedia in their classes.