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Monthly Archives December 2005
Disaster Remembrance Week
Last December and this January, the online community came together as never before to help in the aid efforts in South-East Asia. The lessons learned there were put to use, and improved upon, when the other tragic events of the year unfolded. Can we harness that goodwill, that togetherness, that willingness to help once more? [...]
PR Digest links for Dec. 19, 2005
Elizabeth Albrycht: The State of the Future Chris Anderson: The Probabilistic Age – People are “so uncomfortable” with Wikipedia, Google, and weblogs “because these systems operate on the alien logic of probabilistic statistics, which sacrifices perfection at the microscale for optimization at the macroscale” The Edublog Awards 2005 Winners Loic Le Meur: Survey of bloggers [...]
Tim Berners-Lee is blogging
Here: http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/blog/4 (RSS).
Published opinion
Winston Churchill: “There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.” [source]
PR Digest links for Dec. 25, 2005
Matt Galloway: Is Engaging Online Detractors Scalable? danah boyd: Wikipedia, academia and Seigenthaler David Berlind: Podcast interview with Ross Mayfield, Socialtext: Flap over Wikipedia won’t slow down enterprise Wikis Renee Blodget: Doc Searls’s final keynote at Syndicate David Berlind: Sun’s Schwartz@Syndicate — “”I could not sit in front of you and say transparency is important [...]
“Integrity” is Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year for 2005
“Lookups for ‘integrity’ have steadily increased over the past few years, and this year it is clearly the most looked-up word,” said John M. Morse, president and publisher of Merriam-Webster. “We’re not sure how to account for the increase in interest in this particular word, except that people do often look up the meanings of [...]