Wikipedia becomes more organized, norms activities stricter
Wikipedia has become an increasingly organized bureacracy, with rules and norms that are more complex and performance according to studies
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Research
Academic research, essays, white papers on the social shaping of communication technologies
Wikitruth Through Wikiorder
On Wikipedia it matters who you are and how you did it, not what you did. How does large-scale social
Read MoreWikipedia in academic studies
Wikimedia maintains this extensive and valuable list of academic papers dedicated to academic research that focuses on Wikipedia (such as
Read MoreWikipedia contributions, motivations studied by UN University survey
At Wikimania I sat on a panel with Ruidiger Glott who presented a paper on the first multilingual survey of
Read MoreEncyclopedia of Human thermodynamics
Interesting resource… The EoHT wiki home page eoht.info is the central hub and entry portal for the collective beta-stage Encyclopedia
Read MoreWikipedia scholars
Aniket Kittur is the author of several very interesting papers about inequality of contribution on Wikipedia. His website hosts a
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Virtual Omaha
Map of Omaha Beach German fortifications (blue dropets) laid over the American operational map for June 6, 1944 (misaligned due
Read MoreWeb publishing changes science? Not yet!
The web has not become the tool of choice for disseminating scientific research, despite the fact that Tim Berners Lee’s
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gWiki technology featured at the Museums and the Web Conference
The gWiki technology is featured today at the School of Informatics, IUPUI, in Indianapolis as part of a preconference tour
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Localizing the Internet
How can we conceptualize the relationship between technological and social change at the local level? More specifically, what conceptual tools
Read MoreDynamics GIS
The world is dynamic, and so should be our research and out research tool and mindsets. Here is an example
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@hrheingold freud’s nephew invented PR? that’s too good to be true….
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Wikipedia May Restrict Public’s Ability to Change Entries – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com Wikipedia gives more power to older users
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Teaching and Learning with Technology Conference 2009 tags: no_tag Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st
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Beyond the Bombing: Colorado tags: bombing, militia, oklahoma StateMaster – US Statistics, State Comparisons Very comprehensive database tags: statistics, states,
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Sakai Project : Home : About Sakai tags: no_tag Current List of Participants | Project Bamboo tags: bamboo, project, humanities,
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The Fedora Project: An Open-source Digital Object Repository Management System tags: fedora, repository, project, lor, library, learning, object, lol old
Read MoreEducating with new media
Interesting take on Social Media in Education.. From Knowledgable to Knowledge-able: Learning in New Media Environments | Academic Commons My
Read MoreIThink 01/03/2009
Charts And Graphs: Modern Solutions | Developer’s Toolbox | Smashing Magazine tags: graphs, javascript, visualization, chart, css, webdesign, webdev, charts
Read MoreA social entropy vision of wiki collaboration
Despite the fact that diverse and equal participation of members is considered to be the essence of true online communities,
Read MoreBuilding a Community of Nothing: A guide to building and maintaining an online community
Submitted by Brian Britt on December 1, 2008 to the On-line Interaction and Facilitation Seminar, Fall 2008, Purdue University, Dr.
Read MoreA skill for future employees in the Web 2.0 organization
Ten leading platforms for creating online communities | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.com That most of us are not fluent
Read MoreIntercultural differences between various versions of Wikipeda
Wikipedia has more than 200 versions (including one in Klingon). Looking at the top 500 pages, can we find any
Read MoreHow I learned to accept Wikipedia
My attempts to reject Wikipedia have failed just as this clip from All That Jazz predicted. [youtube]HbLSGYd-Ohc[/youtube] Anger Denial Bargain
Read MoreITHINK 10/20/2008
Amazon.com: The Elements of Typographic Style: Robert Bringhurst: Books tags: no_tag Table of Contents | The Elements of Typographic Style
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Lord Kyl’s Medieval & Fantasy Fonts Initial fonts tags: no_tag Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are
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Notre Dames de Reims – Google Search tags: no_tag Cathédrale Notre Dame de Reims by kevin51340 – Google 3D Warehouse
Read MoreShooting RPG style for Columbine
I seriously wonder if this is just an attempt to understand violence or if it is a way of spreading
Read MoreWiki visual dictionary
Kayla Gregory, one of my graduate students sent me this link Springwise: Video dictionary with a wiki touch Launched two
Read MoreITHINK 10/08/2008
Frequently Asked Questions – FAQ at RobotDials.com tags: no_tag Voice Broadcasting, Lead Generation, Customer Updates, Outbound Calling tags: no_tag Phone
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VITO Technology free trial Downloads for Pocket PC and Symbian copy paste blackjack tags: no_tag
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Text Analysis Info Tools for text analysis tags: text, analysis SciGuy: 50 great books, two terrible sci-fi characters tags: scifi,
Read MoreConverting an XML Mediawiki dump to a simple text, word, rtf format
How do you convert a MediaWiki xml dump (using Special:Export) into a human readable file? First, I expected to find
Read MoreITHINK 09/28/2008
Extension:Inout – MediaWiki Something similar to what Chris Miller wants to do tags: no_tag IT Index | Academic Commons How
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LibriVox » Links tags: no_tag Blog before you Think!: TiddlyWiki Mania tags: tiddlywiki, wiki, productivity, gtd, javascript, software, work List
Read MoreIBD: When it comes to taxes public clueless to who pays, what
Perception: 68% of Americans believe that “the rich” (top 1%) pay less than 40% of US taxes, while 30% believe
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Big Bang experiment has Purdue connection
Big Bang experiment has Purdue connection – News- msnbc.com West Lafayette – Physicists in Switzerland have officially started an experiment
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A research agenda for collaborative consumer engagement and research methods
We’ve known for about half a decade, if not more, that the Internet allows deep and wide collaboration. We have
Read MoreApple – QuickTime – WWDC 2008 Keynote
The Apple Iphone Jobs Video. Highlights: Microsoft Exchange and VPN support EBAY interface Loopt support – Location Aware Social Networks:
Read MoreOpenSocial – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A set of API standards straddling the world of social networks… OpenSocial – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Bamboo Digital Humanities Initiative: A Modest Proposal
University of Chicago and UC Berkley have initiated a planning process codenamed Bamboo for developing a platform for digital humanities.
Read MoreSorin Matei’s Startups
Following a story on the Chronicle of Higher Education Wired Campus Blog I’ve run into YouNoodle.com a social networking site
Read MoreMicrotrends
An apt summary of a good, although too descriptive book:
Read MoreWhat a crew! Purdue’s Department of communication
The department of communication at Purdue has launched this presentation video which highlights some of our main strengths. Speaking of
Read MoreGoogle Receives 64 Percent Of All U.S. Searches In August 2007
Hitwise, the leading online competitive intelligence service, today announced that Google accounted for 63.98 percent of all US searches in
Read MorePhotoshop Goes Online and Free
While it’s still a teaser at the moment, John Nack (Senior Product Manager for Photoshop) has confirmed the development of
Read MoreLocalising the Internet beyond communities and networks
How can we conceptualise the relationship between technological and social change at the local level? More specifically, what conceptual tools
Read MoreTechgnosis
If you have not heard of Erik Davies yet, you should read this article now. This is one of the
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