The Web 2.D’0h! Roundup (2)
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Web 2.Oh. . .really? (10)
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Another look at the menace, mediocrity and occasional magnificence around the world of social media. Architects of the Doomed User Experience Navigation Arts–a Washington, D.C.-area design firm best known for its work for defense contractors, trade associations and government agencies–has helped relaunch of the Charlotte Observer’s website. A leader in usability and enterprise websites, Navigations Arts has produced. . . . . .a site nearly indistinguishable from its peers that have stuck stubbornly with the ...
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Nick said:
Interesting look... the question of course is how to design a newspaper site so it does create more revenues... or is that possible? (The counter argument isn't that revenues need to increase with a better site, but that costs need to decline...)
MakeUseOf Your iPhone: Wikipanion (2)
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One of my least favorite kinds of iPhone App is the “web clone.” Typically these are little more than a mobile version of a web page kept within the skin of a downloadable App. The premise of a web clone is that encapsulating the website in the App will make it more convenient to the user. In reality, most of them exist because the owner of the web service (whether it be a site, a ...
SoundUnwound: a Wikipedia da música da Amazon (1)
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Um dos meus sites favoritos para encontrar informação sobre discos e bandas é o da Amazon, devido às inúmeras críticas de outros utilizadores que podemos encontrar por lá e que permitem obter uma vasta gama de perspectivas sobre o trabalho de um artista ou banda. Com o recém-lançado SoundUnwound, a gigante de comércio electrónico aumenta ainda mais a parada posicionando-se directamente em concorrência com a Wikipedia que segundo dados do Yahoo é o local da ...
Students Advised by Professors not to Use Wikipedia (7)
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I have just bumped into an interesting post on Powerset blog about a small survey they have carried out to see students’ attitude towards Wikipedia. Powerset is a semantic search engine recently acquired by Microsoft. The first product launched by Powerset is the tool to search Wikipedia to get more relevant results using the power of natural language processing technologies. The reason for this study is that the guys at Powerlabs noticed substantial number of ...
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"The survey confirmed the suspicion: students love Wikipedia and often rely on it in their studies yet professors seem to be very unhappy about it. To be more specific, 90% of respondents said they had used Wikipedia content to complete an assignment. What’s more, about 25% of students admitted that they always use Wikipedia for schoolwork."
Just How Powerful Is Wikipedia? (2)
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According to comScore Wikipedia is the 9th most popular site on the web. Quantcast has them in the 8 spot. So does Alexa, and Compete has them coming in at number 10. They’re the second most downloaded search engine addon for Firefox (after IMDB), and Google Trends shows that Wikipedia has a higher search volume than even perennial web search favorite, Paris Hilton. Clearly, Wikipedia is popular. But just how much control does it have ...
SoundUnwound is Amazon's Wikipedia for Music [Music] (14)
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Web site SoundUnwound is Amazon's new music web site designed to provide comprehensive articles and information on bands, musicians, and their discographies and lineups. Mimicking Wikipedia's...
Wikipedia Is An Attractive Nuisance - Sarah Palin Edition (1)
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They said it, not me: "Kelly" Jimbo, I'd recommend keeping an eye on the Sarah Palin article and the associated talk page. The amount of libel and POV-pushing going on there is pretty astonishing, and Wikipedia could end up getting a major public black eye if it's not brought under control. Most sensible editors seem to have thrown up their hands and left. "mboverload" ... We are the #1 RESULT on google for her name. ...
DHS warned not to use Wikipedia in immigration cases [Immigration] (3)
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The Department of Homeland Security used Wikipedia in its effort to reject an application for asylum by Ethiopian woman Lamilem Badasa. Badasa had presented a "laissez-passer" travel document as a form of identification, and the DHS used the Wikipedia page in its successful petition to deport the woman. The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that "Wikipedia is not a sufficiently reliable source" to make such decisions, and handed the case back to the ...
25 years of GNU (1)
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The GNU project turns 25 on September 27. Not much to add beyond what I wrote on the Creative Commons blog. Watch the Freedom Fry video. I do have some meta commentary… The video, featuring British humorist Stephen Fry, is very British. That is, Americans might wonder if there is any humor in it at all. I’m fine with that. It’s great that the video is posted in Ogg Theora format and works seamlessly in ...
Is Wikipedia Becoming a Respectable Academic Resource? (1)
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Lisa Spiro in her blog, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, depicted the increasing citation of Wikipedia on academic works following her examination of Project Muse and JSTOR, leading electronic journal collections for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Along with the increasing number of citations, another indicator that Wikipedia may be gaining respectability is its citation by well-known scholars. Indeed, several scholars both cite Wikipedia and are themselves subjects of Wikipedia entries, including Gayatri Spivak, Yochai ...
Google Chrome, the web chimes in (2)
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Filed under: Google, BrowsersYesterday might have been a US holiday, but the Twittering and blogging masses were awakened (by quacking claxons, I'm sure) to the inadvertent leak of Google Chrome, the oft-rumored browser from the search giant. Naturally, everyone wants a piece of the action. Here are a few of the stories we're digesting:TechCrunch has some juicy first pics of the browser. They snagged a few blurry YouTube screenshots before the demo video was pulled ...
Is Wikipedia Becoming a Respectable Academic Source? (4)
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Digital Scholarship in the Humanities (5)
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Last year a colleague in the English department described a conversation in which a friend revealed a dirty little secret: “I use Wikipedia all the time for my research—but I certainly wouldn’t cite it.” This got me wondering: How many humanities and social sciences researchers are discussing, using, and citing Wikipedia? To find out, I searched Project Muse and JSTOR, leading electronic journal collections for the humanities and social sciences, for the term “wikipedia,” which ...
Google’s Knol: So Far, Not So Good | Technologizer (18)
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You could argue that it’s unfair–or at least unrealistic–to review Google’s Knol in its current form. After all, the Wikipedia-like service just went public a little over a month ago. It takes time to build a build a repository of the world’s knowledge, even if it’s less than comprehensive: Wikipedia surely wasn’t really ready for prime time six weeks after it was launched in 2001. As a Google service, Knol could end up being in ...
Link by Link: Don’t Like Palin’s Wikipedia Story? Change It (6)
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In modern politics, where the struggle is to “define” yourself before your opponent “defines” you, Wikipedia has become an important part of political strategy.
Sarah Palin’s Tech Troubles (1)
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Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin may be working the whole naughty librarian vibe, but she’s apparently having a little bit of trouble with the internet. After John McCain revealed that he had chosen the Alaskan governor as his running mate, editors discovered that several new users had spent hours leading up to the announcement making 30 flattering edits to Palin’s Wikipedia entry. While some Wikipedians gave the pro-Palin editors awards for their work, many ...
Sarah Palin's Wikipedia Whitewash [Coverup] (1)
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We now know that Sarah Palin probably isn't baby Trig's grandma (damn!) but someone on her team seemed to think her past needed a little bit of a touch up. On Friday, just 15 minutes before rumors started circulating that John McCain was going to pick her for his VP, someone made more than 30 favorable changes to her Wikipedia page. The helpful internet sprite edited down portions that dealt with her days as a ...
Genissozluk.com Yayında! (1)
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Merhaba,online sözlüklerin bolluğundan döğan rahatsızlık sonucu yapilma geregi yerinde getirilen bir siteden haber vermek istiyorum. İçinde seslisözlük, zargan, türeng, TDK, oxford, merriam-webster, wikipedia gibi kaynakları barındıran ve bunlara tek bi sayfadan ulaşmanızı sağlayan sitenin adı genissozluk.comkullanınız efem :)
Wiki - nu også med agitprop (1)
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Søgte ‘GOP’ på Wiki’en, for jeg vidste ikke lige hvad ‘GOP’ refererer til i amerikansk politik. Wiki tilbød ikke bare en forklaring på forkortelsen, men tilligemed en omgang agitprop fra en person, som ikke er venligt stemt overfor McCains kampagne: Sarah Palin incorrectly believes that climate change is not man-made[1], naively advocates the teaching of creationism in public schools[2], opposes same-sex marriage[3], strongly promotes oil resource development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge[4], illogically agrees ...
Wikipedia Knew VP Picks Before You (2)
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The Washington Post has an interesting story about predicting who Senator Obama and Senator McCain would pick as their running mates:In the days leading up to Republican presidential candidate John McCain's running mate announcement, political junkies glued to broadcasts and blogs for clues of McCain's veep choice might have done better to keep a sharp eye on each candidate's Wikipedia entry.It turns out that some folks were watching the Wikipedia entries for clues to both ...
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