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Cloud Street: The people with the answers
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Monday, September 18, 2006. The people with the answers. Larry Sanger, the controversial online encyclopedia's cofounder and leading apostate, announced yesterday, at a conference in Berlin, that he is spearheading the launch of a competitor to Wikipedia called The Citizendium. Sanger describes it as "an experimental new wiki project that combines public participation with gentle expert guidance.". Picking on an old favourite of mine, here's the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article on the Red Brigades.
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Cloud Street: Back in the garage
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Tuesday, September 05, 2006. Back in the garage. I have begun to see what I think is a promising trend in the publishing world that may just transform the industry for good. S Many-to-Many post on publishing draws some interesting conclusions from the success of Charlie Stross's Accelerando. Nice one, Charlie). but makes me a bit nervous, partly because of the liberal use. Setting aside the formatting - and the evangelistic tone, something which never fails to set my teeth on edge - this is all interesti...
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Cloud Street: When there is no outside
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Thursday, May 25, 2006. When there is no outside. Nick Carr's hyperbolically-titled The Death of Wikipedia. Has received a couple of endorsements and some fairly vigorous disagreement, unsurprisingly. I think it's as much a question of tone as anything else. When Nick reads the line. Certain pages with a history of vandalism and other problems may be semi-protected on a pre-emptive, continuous basis. And Thomas Vander Wal (! As well as me on 'anomie'. To reiterate, both openness and authority are vested ...
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Cloud Street: I couldn't make it any simpler
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Monday, June 05, 2006. I couldn't make it any simpler. I hate to say this - I've always loathed VR boosters and been highly sceptical about the people they boost - but Jaron Lanier's a bright bloke. His essay Digital Maoism. Doesn't quite live up to the title, but it's well worth reading (thanks, Thomas). Again, I don't know for sure, but I suspect the answer would be another shrug: the wiki's open to all - and tagspace couldn't be more. There's nothing inherently wrong with the process, except that you'...
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Cloud Street: The users geeks don't see
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Wednesday, July 05, 2006. The users geeks don't see. Writes, provocatively as ever, about the recent 'community-oriented' redesign of the netscape.com portal:. Nick cites a post titled Netscape Community Backlash. From which this line leapt out at me:. While a lot of us geeks and 2.0 types are addicted to our own technology (and our own voices, to be honest), it's pretty darn obvious that A LOT of people want to stick with the status quo. You do get the fifty pages of owl pellets first.). The fact that t...
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Cloud Street: Great big bodies
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Wednesday, February 07, 2007. I think the thing that really irritates me about the Long Tail is just how basic the statistical techniques underlying it are. If you've got all that data, why on earth wouldn't you do something more interesting and more informative with it? It's really not hard. (In fact it's so easy that I can't help feeling the Long Tail image must have some other appeal - but more on that later.). You can do something similar with 'posts in last 100 days':. My question is this. If yo...
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Actually Existing: The cold in our eyes
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This blog is now closed. It isn't really anywhere - it's somewhere else. Friday, August 04, 2006. The cold in our eyes. Is it anti-semitic to criticise Israel? Is it anti-semitic to criticise Zionism? Is it anti-semitic, even, to oppose. Zionism - to believe that the state of Israel (as established in 1948) was a thoroughly bad idea which should be replaced by something better? Sir Oswald, would you care to comment? Had developed a similar argument). Since Fascists are primarily concerned with buildi...
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Actually Existing: Never be your woman
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This blog is now closed. It isn't really anywhere - it's somewhere else. Friday, November 24, 2006. Never be your woman. Today the newspapers report. That sexual harassment of teachers and pupils in schools is widespread, and that girls are starting to accept sexist language as the norm . Have I simply dragged some value set from the distant past, which I want to see imposed upon this new social avant garde? The horror, the horror. I am not a Hegelian. oh all right then, I'm a recovering. Take us back fo...
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Actually Existing: The most cruel has passed
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This blog is now closed. It isn't really anywhere - it's somewhere else. Monday, December 11, 2006. The most cruel has passed. Newsflash. General Augusto Pinochet of Chile has just died. His condition is described as 'satisfactory'. Like Rob (and Ellis. Y deja que el sol alumbre. Por todos los rincones de tu casa. Nuestra vida no ha sido hecha. Para rodearla de sombras y tristezas. María ya ves,. No basta nacer, crecer, amar,. Para encontrar la felicidad. Pasó lo más cruel,. Y tus manos de miel. And your...
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Actually Existing: Eat y'self fitter
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This blog is now closed. It isn't really anywhere - it's somewhere else. Monday, February 12, 2007. Inconsequentially: it occurred to me the other day that I'm firmly convinced that some kinds of food and drink are good for you. In most cases this belief doesn't appear to have any rational basis - although in some cases it's probably based on experience, which is almost as good. Anyone else have a similar list at the back of their mind, or is it just me? Those clear broth ones. They're good for you&#...