I thought this piece in the New York Times was particularly interesting because it talks about how Twitter and Wikipedia scooped the traditional news outlets in reporting Tim Russert’s untimely death. Scooped may not be the right word in this sort of instance because NBC wanted to wait an appropriate amount of time to inform [...]
For a little Friday Levity, I thought sharing the Six Degrees of Wikipedia website would be entertaining. The website, like the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game, will provide a path within Wikipedia through its hyperlinked keywords to two separate articles. It gives you the number of clicks (which are hyperlinked terms within any given [...]
According to this news report, Wikipedia may “freeze” some of its encyclopedia entries that have been vetted by experts as a way to make faculty and students feel more comfortable about using the encyclopedia that anyone can edit. This would allow for people to point to a specific article’s archived copy in a much easier [...]
Wikipedia, everyone’s favorite encyclopedia to love or hate, will soon be published as a hard copy in German. Wikipedia has approximately 740,000 German language articles and will reduce that number to around 25,000 (or 50,000 depending on which news report you believe) articles for their 1,000 page book. This new book will be [...]
Are experts really making a comeback on the web? Is the “cult of the amateur” a thing of the past? The Newsweek article “Revenge of the Experts” by Tony Dokupil seems to suggest that the new Web 2.0 will be focused on experts who write, for pay, online content. This got [...]
