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In General on 26/5/2006 at 8:00 pm
- News of Wikipedia's Death Greatly Exaggerated. Many-to-Many:
"A huge number of our current systems are hanging in the balance, because the more valuable a system, the greater the incentive for free-riding. Our largest and most spontaneous sources of conversation and collaboration are busily being retrofit with filters and logins and distributed ID systems, in an attempt to save some of what is good about openess while defending against Wiki spam, email spam, comment spam, splogs, and other attempts at free-riding. Wikipedia falls into that category."
- News and jobs for journalists :: Murdoch moves to further boost online communities
"The drive, which is in an early stage, will see the addition of an online community editor, who will create new forums on hot topics and will seed user-generated content from readers, as well as other staff in editorial and management." Is it me or is this just plain freaky…
- Technorati, AP partner – CyberJournalist.net – Technorati, AP partner
Interesting alignment
Isn’t it amazing the incentive that a $508m investment will create in pushing a technology area that they really don’t understand anyway?
Maybe someone should explain to them that when “the man” gets involved it’s not cool anymore and it’s time to find a new home.