The most well known (at least in libraries) wiki is changing it’s name! Next month [PBWiki] have some big changes that we will be announcing, and one of them is a new name and logo. Yes folks, the peanut butter sandwich is going into retirement. Your workspace will remain exactly the same – with the [...]
Thanks to The Krafty Librarian, I just learned that PBWiki is offering free premium accounts to librarians and teachers (a $250/year value). What is the PBwiki Partner Program for Education? PBwiki wants to make 2008-2009 the year of collaborative learning. We know that budgets are going to be tight, and we don’t want a lack [...]
After the back and forth in the Wikipedia/Britannica debate, Britannica caves: Long a standard reference source for scholarship, largely because of its tightly controlled editing, the Encyclopaedia Britannica announced this week it was throwing open its elegantly-bound covers to the masses. It will allow the “user community” (in the words of the encyclopedia’s blog) to [...]
My husband told me a shocking story last night!! He and his colleagues were debating whether America’s favorite ice cream topping is called “jimmies” or “sprinkles.” One of his colleagues (and I should mention that they’re all early thirties and under) said, we’ll check Wikipedia after lunch. My husband responded, we can’t trust that, people [...]
Well – wikis are social – but what other title could I give this post? Turns out that WetPaint has added some new social networking features to it’s wiki package. (Seattle, Wash. – March 10, 2008) Wetpaint, the leading social publishing platform with a network of over 750,000 social sites, today unveiled a complete set [...]
Judith Seiss points us to Veropedia. Veropedia "is a collaborative effort by a group of Wikipedians to collect the best of Wikipedia's content, clean it up, vet it, and save it for all time. These articles are stable and cannot be edited." It is not competing with Wikipedia"”they "prefer to think of [themselves] as a [...]
I presented with Sarah Theimer from Syracuse this morning. Sarah talked about how they use MediaWiki for keeping track of procedures. She started by asking “Will a wiki work?” and her answer was “Sort of” – my answer is YES! It was fun to listen to Sarah because a lot of what she said was [...]
I have to catalog a lot of foreign language materials at work – and I speak 1 language (typical American). So I use a tool called Babylon (not a freebie) to help me translate bits of text as I search through OCLC for the right copy. Well, now the makers of Babylon are trying something [...]
This is pretty neat. I just learned about WikiMindMap. It’s a tool that lets you browse Wikipedia articles graphically. Here’s a little search I did for Library. By clicking the links on the image (were you on the WikiMindMap page) you are brought to the article in question on Wikipedia. Technorati Tags: wikipedia, wikimindmap
A simple search of published court decisions shows that Wikipedia is frequently cited by judges around the country, involving serious issues and the bizarre "” such as a 2005 tax case before the Tennessee Court of Appeals concerning the definition of "beverage" that involved hundreds of thousands of dollars, and, just this week, a case [...]
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