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YouTube Terms of Service Debate

YouTube recently updated their terms of service to say that by uploading content to them, this gave them a “worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the User Submissions in connection with the YouTube Website.” The link above clarifies exactly what this means (including […]

Posted 27 July 2006 § Main Page ‡ Comments (2) °

Five Things Google Could Learn From Wikipedia (and Five Things Wikipedia Could Learn From Google)

Five Things Google Could Learn From Wikipedia1. More Isn't Always Better.  Wikipedia is like a streamlined Google and more and more frequently, provides the quick factual answer to any question you might have in a way that Google no longer does.  Do I need to know that my search for “GW Bush” returned 250 million […]

Posted 27 July 2006 § Main Page ‡ Comments (2) °

95 Theses of Geek Activism

This is all over the web today – I saw it on Boing Boing this morning and Metafilter tonight (which was cited as being found on Digg.) Here’s the Top 5: 1. Reclaim the term ‘hacker’. If you tinker with electronics, you are a hacker. If you use things in more ways than intended by […]

Posted 25 July 2006 § List § Main Page § Meme ‡ Comments (0) °

A Failed Experiment? 2.0

Overnight, one other person voted for deletion of the Spirit of Librarianship article I put on Wikipedia as well.  So now it's four votes to delete, none to keep and so if you're going to look at the original article, you should do it soon since I'm not sure if it'll exist “behind-the-scenes” once it's […]

Posted 23 July 2006 § Main Page ‡ Comments (5) °

A Failed Experiment?

Other than a couple minor edits, I've never done anything major on Wikipedia, even though I think it's an amazing resource (“a streamlined Google” is how I like to think of it) and use it all the time. So tonight, I decided to try and do something a bit more substantial.  I don't know if […]

Posted 23 July 2006 § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °