Just announced this morning - a fantastic partnership between Flickr and the Library of Congress.
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The Library of Congress Pilot Project
The Library of Congress has a Prints and Photographs Online Catalog comprised of over 1 million images (and growing) that have been available online for over 10 years.
Back in June of 2007, we began our [...]
Larry Sanger is beginning to sound more and more desperate. The growing, but largely irrelevant Citizendium project is still too top-heavy with administrative overhead and will continue to be an also-ran to any discussion around human stores of knowledge.
However, this is not stopping the continued declaration of quality-over-quantity.
Some people might be a little puzzled [...]
Also tagged citizendium, goodenough, larrysanger, wikipediaLarry Sanger has been given a bigger stage. Edge has published his latest essay entitled “Who Says We Know: On the New Politics of Knowledge“. In it he argues against “dabblerism” - a word he made up to help him define his opponents’ position of anti-credentialism. Sanger is a credentialist. He [...]
Also tagged sanger, transparency, wikipediaA few days ago I was excited to find that Eugene Eric Kim had posted about a conversation we’d had (when I apparently ambushed him) at the last Internet Identity Workshop in Mountain View in December. I love it when people who write well make me sound smart.
What was he doing that I found [...]
The Pew Internet and American Life Project has just put out a new report on the state of tagging in America. It also features a fairly prominent interview with David Weinberger.
The takeaway numbers show that 28% of online Americans have used tagging before and that 7% are active taggers (tagged something ‘yesterday’). The [...]
Simon Spero announced yesterday on the SILS student listserv a preliminary release of some of his dataset of Library of Congress authority records. His email is copied below and sets the stage for a great deal of new work.
Tagging - anyone?
The happy meeting of folksonomy and authority records? Our first look into how [...]
So this is fun. Today, I realized I could probably get Cloudalicio.us back online and functional (it’s been offline since March due to a lack of data to parse and graph). It turns out, it was only a few lines of code to tweak and upload.
And it works - Meta Cloudy
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The full post [...]
Network effects are very powerful. They are also very hard to come by, by definition, as most of the time you’re not the one enjoying them. Network effects are blessed upon those who are popular, have a lot of attention being paid to them, and/or are active participants in their own success. [...]
Also tagged citizendium, momentum, sangerWe’ve seen systems crop up in the last few years that tap the power of many. Slashdot, Digg, Reddit, Wikipedia, etc. These systems are very powerful - they opened our eyes to the power of collective knowledge. We each know a bit, but together, we know a whole lot more.
We can spots [...]
Facebook has updated their privacy controls and now provides the ability to block a fair amount of personal activity information from being broadcast.
This is exactly what they should do and what they should have provided at the time of the launch of Mini-Feed and News Feed.
Both Fred and danah have weighed in and for the [...]
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