What's so bad about orphaned wiki pages? This question came into sharp relief in a conversation today with Jerry Michalski. The exchange was triggered by a harmless (I thought) edit I made to a wiki for a private community to MORE >>

i am so pleased that the code4lib journal's first issue is out. the projects described are really interesting and what i like most is that they include an explanation of how they did it (with code!). far too often, you read articles MORE >>

I got interested in social software because of a surprise. Three or four years ago, I attended a workshop run by the Institute for the Future. At the time, I was responsible for knowledge technology at management consultancy McKinsey MORE >>

Reading some of the blog posts on Google's Knol, I'm surprised there isn't more talk about attribution. To me, the really interesting difference between Knol and Wikipedia is the way they handle attribution. In Wikipedia, attribution is MORE >>

i just wanted to wish a very merry christmas to those of you who celebrate it. to those who don't and are looking for entertainment on a day when it seems like everything is closed, here are two impossibly adorable and amusing videos i MORE >>