Category Archives: Wikipedia

Jimmy Wales Fiasco A Missed Opportunity For Google News

A few days ago, you may have heard about the whole Jimmy Wales / Wikipedia fiasco — its hard to believe that you didn’t as it hit a lot of major mainstream media outlets.  The substance of the fiasco (if such a phrase can make sense in a non-oxymoronical kind of way) to me was [...]

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Google’s Destruction, Step #1: Populate Search Results With Google Pages

Not merely content with indexing the web in all its forms (and serving applications to help people work online, tell other people where they are in the world and what they’re doing, creating a platform for mobile devices, and … God, is anyone keeping track of this stuff?), Google is now making a run, as [...]

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Live @ Mesh / Day 2 @ 1340: Digital Sharecropping

With Mathew Ingram, Simon Pulsifer, Jeff Howe, Michael Sikorsky

“How do you respond criticism towards crowdsourcing?”

JH: I think its a false controversy. There were far fewer models back then, and there was no sharecropping taking place. I think it was first compared to child slavery and I thought this was really offensive. If [...]

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