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Watch out McLuhan

By alex | Published: 10/1/2007
I’ve always joked that my aim in academia is getting a walk-on part in a Woody Allan film, like McLuhan in Annie Hall. No luck on that yet, but Derek sent along this trailer for Truth in Numbers: Yes that’s me at the beginning of the trailer, in pretty good company, even if I still […]
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Not-so anonymous edits

By alex | Published: 8/14/2007
Just a quick link in case people don’t follow Wired News these days. They have an article about Wikipedia Scanner (down, at the moment, due to the overload), a mash-up of wikipedia data and a reverse DNS lookup to show where anonymous posters are posting from. Looking up suspicious IPs isn’t hard to do, but […]
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Indicating trust with color on Wikipedia

By alex | Published: 7/30/2007
The “wikilab” at UC Santa Cruz (Go Banana Slugs!) has a demo up for a proposed Wiki reputation system. The system looks at a users edits, and the length of time they survive, and decides that those with long-lasting edits are likely to be more trustworthy. It then allows you to visualize the elements of […]
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The current state of blogging

By alex | Published: 7/20/2007
[I just found this in cleaning out my system. People were reading my unfinished posts–can’t find anything on the ! bug in wordpress. So I cleaned them out. I wrote this on November 15, 2004, but obviously I didn’t finish :). Rather than trash it, I publish. ] More of the Same As with every […]
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