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Wow, LoC.

Posted in Controlled Vocabularies, Flickr, Library 2.0, Library of Congress, Tagging, collaboration, education, information, internet, participation, read-write, technology, web 2.0, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on January 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I’m not completely sure how to start this post. First, I guess with thanks to John Fudrow, else it would have been even longer before I found out about this development (how did I miss this?). My original title for this post was LOC + Flickr = Interesting, but then I saw that the LibrarianInBlack [...]

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when it comes to encyclopedias, does Google knol best?

Posted in Encyclopedia, Google, Wikipedia, collaboration, education, higher education, information, internet, knol, read-write, technology, www, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on January 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

knol
main entry: knol
pronunciation: \ˈnōl\
function: noun
etymology: 12/13/2007 Udi Manber in Encouraging People to Contribute Knowledge, “Earlier this week, we started inviting a selected group of people to try a new, free tool that we are calling ‘knol’…”
definition: A unit of knowledge.
By the end of 2008, the above definition might seem silly. Should [...]

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everyone needs a little lessig in his or her life

Posted in collaboration, copyright, internet, larry lessig, law, media, participation, read-write, technology, ted, tedtalks, www, tagged , , , , , , , on December 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Larry Lessig is a Professor of Law at Stanford University, the founder of its Center for Internet and Society (CIS), the founder and CEO of Creative Commons, and the author of several books calling for a reworking of the copyright law to better mesh with contemporary culture/technologies. Why am I on about him today? [...]

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