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- Syndicated Web ratings again 10:41am Jun 16
- Do you like popularity contests? 8:22am May 29
- Are you disillusioned with Web 2.0? 8:33am May 22
Yes or no. If no, why do we keep making them?
For me, the bloom is off the rose. The Internet affects us psychologically and socially in ways that people like Maggie Jackson and Nicholas Carr — to name just two — have been writing about fascinatingly. (I have written and spoken about the individual impact of the Internet a fair bit as well...
In an informative update, Seth Finkelstein has summed up the fallout to my Open Letter to Jimmy Wales...
I have posted an open letter to Jimmy Wales on his Wikipedia “user talk” page. A copy of the letter can be found below the break...
Here are a bunch of updates on the fall-out to my open letter to Jimmy Wales...
I have largely bit my tongue in the four or five years since Jimmy Wales stopped credited me as co-founder of Wikipedia. There are many things I have not said, or that I could say more pointedly, but which I did not...
Someone sent me a link to a post in the Yahoo! Group called xodp, Message #1720, Tue Aug 6, 2002 11:33 am: Hello, let me introduce myself. I’m Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Nupedia and Wikipedia, the open content encyclopedias...
The well-known librarian newsletter, Cites and Insights, has mentioned the Citizendium, as it has several times in the past. It had the following interesting comment: Why do we love monopolies so...
My Dad, Gerry Sanger, is a retired marine biologist and has been taking people out on the Prince William Sound, as part of his business, Sound Eco Adventures...
I’m preparing a speech I’ll be giving on Saturday in Monterrey, Mexico. The topic is the purpose of the Internet. I believe it makes sense to say that it has a purpose, in the same way it makes sense to say any publishing medium has a purpose...
A special issue of the highly-regarded journal of social epistemology, Episteme, has just appeared...
The Citizendium Monthly Write-a-Thon has started in most of the world (it happens the first Wednesday of every month), and the topic this month is fascinating: Thoughts and Books.With that topic, I’ll be on hand in the morning… In fact, there are already five people who have shown up, including...
The sheer number of fields that are intensely interested in wiki knowledge communities is staggering. (I’ve learned this partly because I’ve been invited to speak by a surprisingly varied assortment of groups.) I’ve been meaning to write about this for a while...
[Note: as I post this, I am having trouble reaching the subpages of ProCon.org. When I wrote it I had no such trouble. If you can't reach them, I'd say try again later.] I had never seen ProCon.org until a few hours ago. Having looked over it, I’m surprised that I didn’t know about it before...
Not exactly CZ related, but this might be of interest to some people...
It’s been a pretty big news story: for a few days, editing of Wikipedia was effectively blocked throughout much of the U.K., because Wikipedia had, and still has, an uncensored reproduction of the Scorpions’ album cover for Virgin Killer...
A friend told me that my name came up on a Prairie Home Companion (a famous U.S. public radio show), but he didn’t tell me it was in a poem. Well, thanks, Garrison Keillor, for the recognition.
WatchKnow, our new project to collect and organize educational videos for kids, is now ready for “beta testing.” Check it out: http://www.watchknow.org/ It works and it’s pretty nice, I think. Still, we haven’t officially launched...
Message to me from Mashable.com: Hello and congrats, Just in case you didn’t see it yet, you are a finalist in The 2nd Annual Open Web Awards (openwebawards.com)...
We are gearing up for Biology Week which begins Monday, September 22! Please plan to show up during the week, and especially on Monday. Also, we need your help to spread the word. If you know any biologists, please pass the word on to them...
Tim Berners-Lee agrees with me that the Internet really, really needs a Web rating system. It really is an idea whose time has come. Probably it will take the backing of somebody like Sir Tim, to get it going.
The plan for WatchKnow has changed a bit, and things are happening now. So here is an update about the project. (Citizendium is a partner in this project, and I’m its director.) (1) We won’t be hosting videos, but only aggregating and embedding them...
Open blog — your comments requested! I want to open up the Citizendium blog to general discussion of an important topic: how can we keep Google (and the larger Internet) from “making us stupid”? I solicit your ideas. Click on “Comments,” or scroll down to the bottom, and share
The part of the Britannica Blog “Your Brain Online” debate that I am interested in is this question: does Web 2.0, or whatever you want to call it, mean the end of the Great Books or of liberal education? And is anybody really saying that it does mean that...
An exercise for the reader: compare and contrast the radical, dystopian, Internet-inspired futures imagined by Clay Shirky (though I admit I might have gotten Clay’s actual position wrong) and Mark Pesce...
Here’s another essay, which I’ve been saving up. Mark Pesce, in a talk that appeared on Edge.org, appears to argue that the plugged-in world of the future will foster an anti-democratic revolution...
Three major new encyclopedia projects have come on the scene lately. Last month, Britannica Online was announced, and a new expert-led encyclopedia called Medpedia, then finally yesterday Knol launched at http://knol.google.com/...
The Britannica Blog invited responses to Nick Carr’s Atlantic essay: This is your brain; this is your brain on the Internet. Shirky wrote yet another of his provocative yet completely implausible posts, to which Carr responded. I wrote a reply in defense of Tolstoy and the individual thinker...
Just for your interest, I have put together a “best of this blog” category. I’ve included only stuff written and “published” originally in this blog — not papers
…yep, it’s my birthday, so I’m taking the day off, but I thought I’d pop in here long enough to thank the people who have been writing me articles for my b
Edge (you should check it out if you never have) has a discussion of Nick Carr’s Atlantic article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid: What The Internet is doing to Our Brains.” The discussion features W...
WatchKnow, the nascent free educational video project, has decided to let you choose the topics for our summer contest entries; prizes range from $25-$300 per winner...
OK, so there was a call for papers on PhilUpdates, a philosophy announcement list. It seems Robert Arp is compiling a volume on the pressing topic of The Onion and Philosophy...
The following describes an idea I had a few weeks ago while attending an entrepreneur’s conference in Paris. I have little desire and even less time (between Citizendium and Watchknow) to pursue this myself, so I commend it to anyone who is interested. I want to kick it out the door and...
I gave a speech last week at PCST-10 (the 10th conference of the International Network on Public Communication of Science and Technology), held at Malmö University, Sweden...
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