What happens when you cross a search engine with a wiki?Thursday, September 24th, 2009 with 6 Comments »
Google meets Wikipedia-style crowd-sourced comments. Is this a good thing?
Google meets Wikipedia-style crowd-sourced comments. Is this a good thing?
Are we giving away more personal detail about ourselves than we realize on Social media sites? A Boston Globe article discusses “Project Gaydar” in which two students were able to predict men’s sexual orientation through their Facebook friends list.
A brief primer on some happenings in the voice over IP space.
Group collaboration is not always a bad thing, especially when individuals perform specialized activities to produce a group advancement. The use of Twitter and Facebook during the recent Iranian electoral uprising also implies that a clearly defined common intent makes more effective use of these tools. Paul Wehage explores how these ideas might be more relevant to our own individual lives than we might suspect.
Iconoculture calls the new wave of social media “the real Second Life”.
Akahele doesn’t just talk about Wikipedia Art. Akahele creates Wikipedia Art. Wehage and Kohs create works for the Wikipedia Art Remixed project for the Venice Biennale.
Andrei Codrescu asks, “Did the washing machine and the car really create such leisure time that we are giving it over to Google? Are the machines really working that well together?”
The speed with which Web 2.0 came into full-blown existence is in large part the reason this latest consumer-focused media revolution has come into being free of the expected restraining forces – normally offered by order-injecting referee institutions. Hence, not only must Web 2.0 content be largely user-generated, so too the means of protecting truth and reputations.
Internet data collection has become highly unreliable, as consumers disengage from the important questions that businesses wish to ask them. This practitioner is reaching the disheartening point where data based on a web survey merits very little trust any more.
An exploration of the Internet’s nature as a vehicle for communication, as well as the role of intent in the authorship of content. Integrity requires making oneself the sole arbiter of success.