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Category Archives: online community

Wikis big and small – the difference is trust

Stephen commented on Quentin D’Souza’s post regarding building a wiki community (originally from Danny Horn of Muppet Wiki). Wikipedia, he says, is not just a larger wiki with a larger contributor base than a small wiki with a group of 50 contributors (such as Muppet Wiki). Wikipedia can control content by having a large base [...]

Twitter mediated co-presentation

Today was the day that I drank the [Twitter](http://twitter.com) kool-aid. I have moved from [Stage 2](http://stigmergicweb.org/2007/04/26/stage-2-i-still-dont-get-it/) to Stage 6 (at least) in Doc Levine’s description of the [epidemiology of Twitterosis](http://cogdogblog.com/2007/04/26/splj-20/). I spent (most of) my day attending the [TLt 2007 conference](http://www.tlt-itsummit2007.ca/) in Saskatoon, which is about a 90 minute drive from home. During the drive, [...]

Protecting the children … from their right to communicate!

If you listen right now, you can hear that the edublogosphere is buzzing in outrage at the U.S. congress’ proposed Deleting Online Predator’s Act (DOPA). I found out about it from Will Richardson (Congress Targets Social Network Sites), but Stephen, Danah and Raj have mentioned it as well. (and on Kairos News, and Bryan Alexander). [...]

coComment – blogless blogging?

D’Arcy blogged about coComment, a new tool for tracking distributed conversations by keeping track of comments you have made on various blogs. Now we can achieve total zen-like serenity by blogging across the internet without actually having a blog. The description at the coComment site sound great, and a brief poke around shows that each [...]