15 month ago
plasticbag : Just so people know, I'll be doing an overview and introduction to Fire Eagle at the Future of Web Apps Expo in London in about a month - I talked a bit about Fire Eagle at Hack Day and at dconstruct yesterday, but we should be pretty close to letting people see things a little more clearly by then.
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26 month ago
plasticbag : Carson Systems are doing another Future of Web Apps conference in the UK - and this time it's a two day event like in San Francisco - I have to say that while I love talking at Carson events, I very much do not like the fear that I get for weeks beforehand. They're huge events and they fill me with ridiculous levels of fear.
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27 month ago
plasticbag : Weird review of the Future of Web Apps event from ZD Net - The last section on 'worst session' seems to me to sum up in a nutshell the culture clash between traditional software development practices for desktop applications and a culture of web native young technologists. But maybe I'm just drunk or something.
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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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