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This year
The Owen Gun, Introduction to the Story.
by gympie
Why a book or a History of the Owen Gun, from Ron Owen?
Well first of all let me say that we have no evidence that the Owen’s of Wollongong, New South Wales are direct relatives to the Owen’s of Manchester and North Wales. However we do know that ...
Who Writes Wikipedia? (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)
by Spone
& 1 other
So did the Gang of 500 actually write Wikipedia? Wales decided to run a simple study to find out: he counted who made the most edits to the site. “I expected to find something like an 80-20 rule: 80% of the work being done by 20% of the users, just because that seems to come up a lot. But it’s actually much, much tighter than that: it turns out over 50% of all the edits are done by just .7% of the users … 524 people. … And in fact the most active 2%, which is 1400 people, have done 73.4% of all the edits.” The remaining 25% of edits, he said, were from “people who [are] contributing … a minor change of a fact or a minor spelling fix … or something like that.”
2008
Arrêt sur images - Avis de gros temps sur Wikipedia
by srcmax
(via)
On dirait le pitch d'un roman d'aujourd'hui : accusé, dans un espace de discussion sur Wikipedia, d'avoir modifié la notice de sa compagne, Jimmy Wales, le cofondateur de l'encyclopédie planétaire en ligne, se justifie en annonçant abruptement qu'il vient de rompre avec ladite compagne. Fureur de la cyber-larguée, qui décide immédiatement de vendre aux enchères sur e-bay les habits laissés chez elle par l'indélicat, tandis qu'un des anciens collaborateurs de Wales l'accuse de détourner l'argent de la fondation Wikipedia à son profit personnel.
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2007
The Viridian Design Movement
by mozkart
(via)
Viridian Note 00459: Emerging Technology 2006
by Bruce Sterling
Key concepts:
Web 2.0, nomenclature, neologisms, archaeologisms, spimes, blogjects, fabjects, blobjects, thinglinks, everyware, FlickR, Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, Caterina Fake, ubiquitous computation, Marc Weiser, Tim O'Reilly, Alan Liu, Adam Greenfield, Ulla-Maaria Mutanen, Julian Bleecker, O'Reilly Media Emerging Technology Conference 2006
Attention Conservation Notice:
it's a Bruce Sterling speech at a California technology conference. Delivered at alpha-geek central, it may include indecipherable techie in-jokes. Well over 6,000 words. Includes illustrations.
Amazon Wikipedia to launch new Search Engine
by taurusismysign
(via)
Well, I know its not latest news .. neither its HOT as everything still sees Google to be having the major part of the pie, and want to grab and make something for their own ... Check this out!
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9075-2517026,00.html
Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia, is set to launch an internet search engine with amazon.com that he hopes will become a rival to Google and Yahoo!
2006
Topiary organisation in the UK
by TopairyJoe
The Topiary & Bay tree Organisation - informing the public and trade of the best prices to buy topiary plants, buy baytrees or buy bay trees and to hire topiary and hire baytrees / hire bay trees for weddings shows & events in the UK, buy topiary in scotland, hire topiary in scotland, buy topiary in wales, hire topiary in wales.
My Home Town Schools
by sanddancer
& 1 other
Locate and contact your old School, College and University Friends, through the UK, Scotland, Ireland and Wales
BBC - Wales - Digital Storytelling
by jlesage
BBC site has good examples, especially children's "Shoebox Stories"
Schee - 摩托車日記 ? Jimmy Wales 訪台座談會後感
by vista
陳正然特別提到這塊。和九五年那個時期比較，數位媒體在談論網路作為一個時空間媒介和載體的可能性部分，卻反其道而行，越來越窄。「網路」可資以談的，不是只有行銷而已。
Driver Fined for Farding
by jasontromm
(via)
The roadside camera was supposed to catch speeders. Instead, a British woman is in trouble after she was videotaped with a compact in one hand and a brush or pencil in the other hand while driving on a hazardous road in North Wales.
DIANA CRASH CAUSED BY LASER BEAM
by zboog
The crash that killed DIANA, PRINCESS OF WALES and her lover DODI FAYED was caused by a laser beam being flashed into the eyes of their driver, it has been claimed.
