11 days ago
Anil : Alan Leeds and Who Writes the Web - One of the most frequent questions I get when I talk to people who are unfamiliar with social media on the web is, "Who writes all these blogs or Wikipedia? Who has the time?" The answer, at least in this case, is me. People who are skeptical about the
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12 days ago
Linkorama : Faviki Brings Wikipedia and User Notes to Social Bookmarking - Faviki is a tool that brings together social bookmarking and Wikipedia. It allows you to tag webpages with Wikipedia concepts, categorizing them automatically. This solves the problem of having different tags for the same concept and makes your tags bette
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14 days ago
Anil : Alan Leeds and Who Writes the Web - One of the most frequent questions I get when I talk to people who are unfamiliar with social media on the web is, "Who writes all these blogs or Wikipedia? Who has the time?" The answer, at least in this case, is me. People who are skeptical about the
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15 days ago
Anil : Alan Leeds and Who Writes the Web - One of the most frequent questions I get when I talk to people who are unfamiliar with social media on the web is, "Who writes all these blogs or Wikipedia? Who has the time?" The answer, at least in this case, is me. People who are skeptical about the
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1 month ago
gleuschk : Wikipedia:Today's featured article/September 4, 2008 - Emmy Noether - it's been fascinating to watch the preparations for FAing this article. (And I was tipped off that today was the day by the amazing uptick in vandalism on the page.)
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2 month ago
nelson : Wikipedia saturation - English edits have levelled off
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2 month ago
deusx : Extended Mind - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "The Extended Mind refers to an emerging concept within the philosophy of mind that addresses the question as to the division point between the mind and the environment by promoting the view of active externalism. This view proposes that some objects
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2 month ago
Linkorama : A unit of what? - A knol, Knol says, is a “unit of knowledge”. I don’t think so. But I do think Knol is already becoming a den of spam.
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2 month ago
Rod Begbie : BBC - Music - The first part of Auntie Beeb's integration with MusicBrainz and Wikipedia is live. Every artist in MusicBrainz now has a page on bbc.co.uk, featuring radio playcount information where available. Very cool. [via] #
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gleuschk : Michael Nielsen » Wiki set points - funny name, interesting idea
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3 month ago
deusx : Teapot - Talk:List of HTTP status codes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "Tsk! Status code "418 I'm a teapot" shouldn't be removed, it's from a real actual IETF blessed RFC. Albeit in the fine tradition of April 1st RFC"
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wearehugh : Upper Peninsula War - be sure to check out the talk page too!
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nelson : Deletionist morons - Tim Bray goes righteous. Why don't the deletionist nerds just invent a metadata system that lets them tag stuff as irrelevant?
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Linkorama : Thinking in Wikis - Wikipedia: The Missing Manual talks about the invisible Wikipedia—the social and technical structures that you only see when you want to contribute.
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4 month ago
Linkorama : Wikipedia 3.0: You can now edit any page on Mahalo - Interesting experiment, seems like imbalanced incentives at first brush. Mahalo's costs will soar to fend off vandalism and maintain coordinated -- and contributors could mostly be from the SEO community.
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5 month ago
Rod Begbie : Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Clay Shirky's talk from web2expo, which was by far the best of the keynotes. "Desperate Housewives essentially functioned as a kind of cognitive heat sink, dissipating thinking that might otherwise have built up and caused society to overheat." #
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6 month ago
gleuschk : Watchlist RSS - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Works! Yay!
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6 month ago
plasticbag : Another one for Fire Eagle users - iamnear.net has added megaliths to its nearby pub-tracker - This one could just grow and grow - particularly given all the geocoded information in Wikipedia.
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6 month ago
Linkorama : The Truth According To Wikipedia - documentary video
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7 month ago
Linkorama : WikiNear - A FireEagle/Wikipedia mashup
factoryjoe : wikinear.com - Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: wikipedia, fire eagle, location, Simon willison
deusx : wikinear.com - "wikinear.com shows Wikipedia pages near you, based on your location according to Yahoo! Fire Eagle. The site is optimised for use on a mobile phone."
philgyford : Wikinear.com - Awesome little app by Simon Willison that shows you places near you from Wikipedia, using Yahoo! Fire Eagle. Makes me want an iPhone.
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7 month ago
plasticbag : Simon Willison's knocked up Wikinear, which is a really simple and classy Fire Eagle app to show you stuff near your current location. - Really interesting set of things going on here - stores your auth information in a cookie, which is quite classy. No need to register at all. Shows you your five nearest geotagged places in Wikipedia.
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7 month ago
Andy Baio : Simon Willison's Wikinear, Wikipedia pages near your current location - demonstrates Fire Eagle and OAuth, mixed with Wikipedia, GeoNames, and the new Google Maps Static API
Linkorama : wikinear.com, OAuth and Fire Eagle - Under the hood the site combines a number of interesting technologies: OAuth, Fire Eagle, GeoNames and the new Google Static Maps API.
factoryjoe : wikinear.com, OAuth and Fire Eagle - Brilliant writeup about how Simon implemented wikinear using OAuth, etc. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: oauth, fire eagle, wikinear
Rod Begbie : wikinear.com, OAuth and Fire Eagle - Simon Willison knocks out a quick prototype showing Wikipedia articles related to your current location, a masterpiece of mashuppery. #
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7 month ago
Simon Willison : Wikihistory - Wikihistory. International Association of Time Travellers: Members’ Forum. [via]
Rod Begbie : Abyss & Apex : Wikihistory - "Take it easy on the kid, SilverFox316; everybody kills Hitler on their first trip. I did. It always gets fixed within a few minutes, what's the harm?" [via] #
Kellan : Wikihistory - everybody kills Hitler on their first trip. #
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Linkorama : Open-Source Troubles in Wiki World - This defamation pile on by competing media and egos really bothers me
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7 month ago
gleuschk : The Charms of Wikipedia - The New York Review of Books - Nicholson Baker, who has a new book coming out
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