Tag: wikipedia

Friday Fun Link – Wikipedia’s List of Emerging Technologies

Covering all kinds of sectors from energy to manufacturing to health and more. Fascinating glimpse at the near future.

Live Map of Changes to Wikipedia

Fascinating (although not quite as comprehensive as you’d expect – only people who aren’t logged in to Wikipedia accounts have their IP addresses logged when they make edits.

Auto-Antonym…

…is a word with a homograph (a word of the same spelling) that is also an antonym (a word with the opposite meaning). The more you know!

2012 “End-of-Year Questions” Meme: Hawaiian Paradise, Kindergarten Kid, and “It’s (Going To Be) A Girl”

1. What did you do this year that you’d never done before? Saw a photo of the brain of someone I know! Shea’s nephew has had a variety

@ryanmeili Monday – Wikipedia Woes for #skndpldr Candidate Headshots

I’ve got a well-documented love/hate relationship with Wikipedia. As much as I love the idea of Wikipedia, I’m frequently disappointed by how it runs in practice. The non-notability

Social Media Showdown – #SKNDPLDR Edition

During the last Sask NDP leadership race, I spent a lot of time analysing the social media aspects of each candidate’s campaign. As we get another leadership race

Digital Strategy Catches Up With the Present: An Interview with The Smithsonian’s Michael Edson

Lots to think about in this interview and presentation… Some choice quotes… We don’t have to wait to see if social media and crowdsourcing and mobile data in

Friday Fun Link – The Internet Galaxy

A web developer has created a map of the 350 000 largest sites on the Internet reflecting their relative size and also their relationships with each other. (via

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