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02 January 2007
Second Life Business Communicators Wiki
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There's a lot of froth flying around about the business use of Second Life, but not many facts. Here's a good resource in the making...
13 December 2006
Vive L'Open Source
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This is worrying: politicians have discovered that open source is vaguely, well, groovy : "I am very impressed with the phenomenon of o...
11 December 2006
Larry's New Code
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As the author of two books with the word "code" in the title, I naturally gravitate to other tomes that also draw on this word. B...
01 December 2006
Enter the WikiMatrix
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Confused by all the wikis out there? You will be, once you've worked your way through the dozens listed on this amazing site , which le...
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22 November 2006
The End of the End for Academic Writing
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Scholarship never ends. There is never a last word, even about established facts. What we've had up till now in published works are stat...
31 October 2006
Here's the Jot - Where's the Tittle?
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So, Google has bought JotSpot , and adds wikis to its growing collection of office tools. Who's next?
26 October 2006
Peer-Reviewed Wikis Are Like Buses...
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...you wait for ages and then two come along at once. First we had Citizendium , now here's Scholarpedia . The dynamics are slightly di...
12 October 2006
Never Mind About Firefox 2.0, What About 3.0?
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Firefox 2.0 still not hot enough? What about Firefox 3.0 ? You even get a chance to put in a feature request.
22 September 2006
Random Catch-ups: Semapedia and SWiK
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Neither of these is new, but I've not mentioned them before, and I should have done. Semapedia : Semapedia.org is a non-profit, communit...
18 September 2006
Wiki in a Box
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So, it seems that someone has come up with the idea of offering a box with some wiki software in it. For several thousand dollars. They...
04 September 2006
Wiki, Wiki, Wonga
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The New York Times has a piece about for-profit wikis. Personally, I can't see this happening much, since the essence of wikis is the...
30 August 2006
Wired's Wikified Wiki Words Work?
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This is one of those things that you just want to work. Wired has put up one of its stories - on wikis - to be freely edited by anyone. Or...
15 August 2006
The Wiki-God Speaks...Mysteriously
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While Wikipedia seems always in the news (as the previous post indicates), the man who started it all - no, not Jimmy Wales, but Ward Cunnin...
25 July 2006
Wikis Get Down to Business
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Mention wikis, and most people think of Wikipedia. But Wikipedia is a one-off, a unique, unrepeatable example of what a wiki can be. And s...
11 July 2006
Wiki in the City
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If you've ever wondered what might befall an innocent little wiki in hands of a serious investment bank, take a look at this . It's...
05 July 2006
Wikifying Search with Swickis
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Swickis are an interesting idea. As their mother-ship, Eurekster , explains : A swicki is new kind of search engine that allows anyone to c...
28 May 2006
Wiki + Google Maps = WikiMapia
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As I've said before, every good mashup needs a mesh, and you can't beat a map as a mesh. So here we have the obvious next step: a ...
18 May 2006
Open Source Management
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Yes, really . Here's an excerpt: It is open source software and its social media descendants such as wikis and blogs that are making so...
09 May 2006
New Life in the Bush of Ghosts
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Actually, I was wrong : wikis aren't the only form of open collaborations that are thriving. Remixes are coming on strong too. As well...
Enter the Graphiki: a Wiki for Graphics
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Wikis are a striking success. I don't just mean the epistemological juggernaut that is Wikipedia: there are now hundreds, perhaps thous...
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