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Friday Fun Link – Google Takes on Wikipedia with Google Knol (Dec 14, 2007)

Google will soon be releasing their own take on a Wikipedia-style of information resource – Google Knols (screenshot). Some of the significant differences will be: named authors (who can choose to receive a portion of ad revenue for the “knol” pages they write) instead of Wikipedia’s anonymous author model. The site will allow multiple “knols” […]

Posted 14 December 2007 § FridayFunLink § Internet § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

WikipediaVision (beta)

This mash-up site shows near-real time edits to Wikipedia mapped against a Google map of the earth. 

Posted 31 October 2007 § Internet § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – Seven Most Scandalous Wikipedia Edits (Sept 21, 2007)

I did an earlier post about the guy who designed a program to link IP addresses to Wikipedia edits. This has led to all kinds of discoveries of spin, manipulation and outright lies being planted by individuals and organizations who want to harm others or clean up their own image. Now a blogger has compiled […]

Posted 22 September 2007 § Censorship § Internet § Main Page § Politics ‡ Comments (0) °

This Is Why Wikipedia Exists…

List of acquired tastes – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia(I'm proud to say that “cilantro” and “clamato” were two additions I made to the list although cilantro is still one I don't have a taste for – I think I have that enzyme thing where it tastes like rotted hell “an unpleasant soapy taste and/or rank […]

Posted 20 August 2007 § Internet § List § Main Page ‡ Comments (2) °

Friday Fun Link – See Who's Editing Wikipedia (August 17, 2007)

Wikipedia allows anonymous edits but it does track the IP of anyone who makes the edit. So a Cal-Tech computer grad student, inspired by news last year that Congress members’ offices had been editing their own entries, and curious whether other organizations were doing anything similar, developed a program to make it much easier to […]

Posted 18 August 2007 § FridayFunLink § Internet § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Truth In Number: The Wikipedia Story (Trailer)

This looks pretty wicked…

Posted 15 August 2007 § Internet § Main Page § Video ‡ Comments (1) °

The Open Library: Wikipedia meets Amazon?

“Imagine a library that collected all the world’s information about all the world’s books and made it available for everyone to view and update. We’re building that library.”(via MetaFilter)Jessamyn West blogged about the site on Librarian.net and suggests checking the “About the Librarianship” page which says:“For the first time, we'll have an open, public, curated, […]

Posted 17 July 2007 § Library § Main Page ‡ Comments (2) °

Time Lapse of the Wikipedia Article for the Virginia Tech Shooting

I'd seen something like this once before for some other news event (Saddam's hanging?) and, as I suspected, someone has one again created a time lapse of how the Wikipedia article for the VT shootings developed over its first 12 hours. Kinda interesting watching the article grow/change/mutate in a very organic fashion.  Actually, that makes […]

Posted 21 April 2007 § Internet § Main Page § Video ‡ Comments (6) °

Friday Fun Link – Wikipedia Brown (Dec 1, 2006)

Oh, but how I loved the Encyclopedia Brown books as a child. Wikipedia Brown: A Mini-Mystery for the Internet Generation (via MetaFilter)

Posted 01 December 2006 § FridayFunLink § Main Page ‡ Comments (1) °

Friday Fun Link – Wikipedia 100 (Sept 29, 2006)

As September comes to a close, it’s a good time to point out that Wikipedia has an option to view the Top 100 viewed pages of every month. In September 2006, sex-related pages (List of Sexual Positions, Sex, Pornography) compete with popular media stories (Steve “Crocodile Hunter” Irwin, Dawson College Shootings) and more general topics […]

Posted 30 September 2006 § FridayFunLink § LibrarySchool § Main Page ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: