17 month ago
Simon Willison : About Us (The Open Library) - About Us (The Open Library). I’m a complete sucker for massively ambitious “make the world a better place” projects. Let’s hope this one has legs.
nelson : Open Library - sort of like wikipedia, a page for every book. Congrats, Aaron!
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25 month ago
43folders : The Aftermath (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought) - "So you, uh, have a web site?"
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plasticbag : Aaron Swartz writes about 'Wikimedia at the Crossroads' and announces that he's going to run for a position on the board - He'd get my vote - he's evidenced a particular level of passion, enthusiasm, intelligence and commitment over the last few years.
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27 month ago
Andy Baio : Aaron Swartz asks, who writes Wikipedia? - most Wikipedia edits are by core users, but Aaron finds the most important contributions are by infrequent or anonymous users [via]
Nelson Minar : Who writes Wikipedia? - Aaron's campaigning, an interesting result on Wikipedia edits
plasticbag : Aaron's second essay on Wikipedia - "Who Writes Wikipedia" - is a bloody important read if you're interested in social software - If his contention is true - and it seems entirely plausible - then there are a lot of things we can learn from the existence of editors and the massively distributed content generation that's going on with Wikipedia
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