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Open plan 2.0: collaboration by eavesdropping
The open-plan office was sold the way Web 2.0 was: knock down the walls and collaboration will follow. What followed, mostly, was other people’s phone calls.
Tilikum and Wikipedia
When it comes to the unpredictability of animals, don’t trust killer whales at Sea World, and don’t trust humans that edit Wikipedia.
Nobody’s watching
The large majority of Wikipedia’s biographies of living people are being put on the watchlists of fewer than four registered editors.
Ron Livingston battles phantom defendant
Actor Ron Livingston enters the all-too-common nightmare of protecting his reputation from anonymous defamatory attacks.
The State of the Human Economy
Digging through a few conference notes from the CTAM Research Conference of February 2007, I uncovered a few things I had jotted down while listening to Shari Swan, founder of Streative Branding and former global marketing executive at Reebok. Swan simply presented a timeline of human economic history, but I found it provocative enough [...]
PhotoSketch creates mystic visions
Can you draw a crude sketch on the back of an envelope or napkin? Then PhotoSketch can (purportedly) render that concept into a seamless “photo” that looks quite realistic. Is this a good thing?
Ten new Wikipedia articles
An interesting audit (or post-mortem) of ten brand-new Wikipedia articles. How many are useful to more than a handful of daily readers? How many even survive the first day or the first month of publication? The answers may surprise you.
What happens when you cross a search engine with a wiki?
Google meets Wikipedia-style crowd-sourced comments. Is this a good thing?
MIT students prove that privacy is a thing of the past
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.
False sense of security
From a security standpoint, most of Web 2.0 is akin to inviting a group of strangers into your home, with all your valuables stored under the bed in the next room.