Tag Archives: Wikipedia

Drinking one’s own Kool-Aid

By alex | Published: 10/29/2006
Mr. Calacanis is at it again, attempting to monetize the world of user-created media. I don’t, like some, think that a recent influx of cash somehow means the automatic death of the read/write web. All new media go through a period of maturation that often includes colonization by profit-seeking organizations and individuals. But in this […]
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Online chat on Wikipedia in the Academy

By alex | Published: 10/24/2006
This was behind a pay-wall before now, but the Chronicle of Higher Ed has an article on the relationship between Wikipedia and academia. I was quoted in there, and it focusses a little on the Isuzu Experiment but I guess that’s not all bad. As always, I think that there is space there for missed […]
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Trusted Wikipedia Project

By alex | Published: 9/20/2006
Many people dismiss Wikipedia out of hand as a trusted source, precisely because it is written and edited by “anybody.” This differs, they suggest, from a newspaper, which is “fact checked,” or from an academic paper, which is “peer reviewed.” Over the last two years, I have chatted with a number of people about the […]
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[wikimania] Benkler / Calacanis followup

By alex | Published: 8/5/2006
The Digg crowd and elsewhere out there seem to be abuzz about the short Q & A between Benkler and Calacanis. I see this blog post and wonder if I am in the same room. Calacanis defends his offer to pay members of the Digg collaborative filtering system with the following metaphor: There are both […]
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