Category: The Power of Many

OK, so you’re down with blogging? Great? What’s your wiki strategy? Blogs are great because logging, chronological entry-making, suits the temporal rhythms of the web, a medium more like music than, say, photography. Like a river, the web is always changing. So a wiki is kind of like a dam that enables you to accumulate…

Quoting Simon Willison’s Some notes on Wikipedia: I’ve been driving myself crazy with coursework over the past couple of weeks, and since it’s always good to have something to take your mind off things I’ve also been spending a fair amount of time lurking around the beautifulWikipedia. Here are a few things about Wikipedia you…

Quoting Simon Willison’s Some notes on Wikipedia: I’ve been driving myself crazy with coursework over the past couple of weeks, and since it’s always good to have something to take your mind off things I’ve also been spending a fair amount of time lurking around the beautifulWikipedia. Here are a few things about Wikipedia you…

Andy Baio says (in Shirky’s response to Danah Boyd on the recent Wikipedia debate): Clay on Danah on Clay on Sanger; a great debate Definitely an interesting discussion but I wonder if we are making a category error here. Talking about wikipedia in terms of its authoritativeness seems a bit like mistaking the NCSA What’s…

Quoting from Are You Reputable? by Jed Miller (blogging at Personal Democracy Forum): Media research company Bacon’s Information says it will be watching “the most reputable online news blogs” in order to help their subscribers “determine the possible impact on business decisions and company reputations.” The Bizwire announcement doesn’t specify quite how they’ll decide who’s…

It ain’t April Fools, so I’m assuming Om is correct with his web excloo at Om Malik on Broadband: