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Wikiality and Wikimania

By alex | Published: 8/2/2006
In case you missed it, Stephen Colbert is walking in my footsteps and replicating the Isuzu Experiement on Wikipedia. Obviously, he didn’t read my follow-up, suggesting that this was a bad thing to do. He also says: “I love Wikipedia. Any site that has a longer entry on ‘truthiness’ than on Lutherans has its priorities […]
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The New Yorker on Wikipedia

By alex | Published: 7/28/2006
The New Yorker has a very nice article on Wikipedia, which sums up the site better than I\’ve seen it done, and (as noted by David Robinson) Wikipedia agrees with that assessment. It will be a nice item to add to introductory social computing readings–something the Atlantic Monthly (esp. Charles Mann) has been a good […]
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Flash Mob: A singular act of female rebellion

By alex | Published: 7/9/2006
Derek reveals an early (1844) example of the term flash mob. Makes the term \”smart mob\” perhaps more appealing.
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Britannica bites back

By alex | Published: 3/25/2006
Britannica has finally gotten around to responding to the Nature article that suggested that Wikipedia and Britannica are not that different. They posted their response as a pdf perhaps as a way to make sure fewer people would actually read it. (Someone needs to tell corporate America that PDFs are great for some things, but […]
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