RecentChangesCamp is the family reunion for the Wiki Ohana! The 2008 RecentChangesCamp will be held May 9-11 in Palo Alto, California (San Francisco Bay Area).
J.D. Lasica is one of the world's leading authorities on social media and the revolution in user-created media. A writer, strategist, blogger and consultant, he is the co-founder and editorial director of Ourmedia.org, president of the Social Media Group
ecause the influx of women into the blogosphere has been fairly recent, few studies have been made of women bloggers and in particular, the sub-genre of mom bloggers. The purpose of this study was to study the trends in blogging, and to study in-depth fe
Welcome to QuestionCopyright.org. Our mission is to educate the public about the history of copyright, and to promote methods of distribution that do not depend on restricting people from making copies.
Nowhere on the Internet does this free lunch logic hold more true than at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia anyone can edit. Sure, it's monetarily free, but it costs you heaps in credibility and accuracy, as well as the time spent combing over information for instances of "jason is a faggit" and other assorted such delights hidden mid-paragraph here and there.
Something Awful has a flat out hilarious (if somewhat long in the introduction) article on the nerd bias of wikipedia. The point isn’t to say that one article or another on Wikipedia has factual inaccuracies, but rather to show how much more attention certain topics get than others.
A columnist for the Syracuse Post-Standard apparently recommended Wikipedia as a good independent source for information. However, a librarian wrote him to complain about Wikipedia, and now another columnist has decided to spend an entire column bashing Wikipedia as a source because (gasp!) "anyone can change the content."
There's been plenty of debate over the past couple of years about the merits of Wikipedia, generally focusing on how "trustworthy" the site is because of its anonymous contributors and lack of professional editorial review.
T. Hampel, T. Pitner, und J. Schulte. ICEIS 2008 - 10th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, Seite 107-112. Barcelona, Spain, (Juni 2008)