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Wikis big and small – the difference is trust

Monday, June 4, 2007

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 [...]

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Twitter mediated co-presentation

Wednesday, May 2, 2007

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, [...]

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Protecting the children … from their right to communicate!

Thursday, May 11, 2006

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). [...]

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coComment – blogless blogging?

Monday, February 6, 2006

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 [...]

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