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BBC, annotated

By alex | Published: 10/4/2004
This is really cool. The BBC NEWS wikiproxy runs the BBC through a filter that linkifies the text to hit Wikipedia articles, and adds in which blogs are pointing to the article. How cool is that? Of course, there is the second-order problem: will (would) blogs start linking through the filter itsef and thereby mess […]
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KeyPals

By alex | Published: 10/1/2004
Back in 1994, I started an experiment setting up email pen pals between my students in Japan and students in the US and New Zealand. While the internet was firmly in its booming period in the West, it remained fairly unused in Japan at the time. We got connections going between students in Hawaii and […]
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