Daily Archives: Saturday, August 5, 2006

Stages of grief: Last night, I had dinner with Dave Winer and brought up again the issue of his decision to “quit blogging.” He suggested I might be going though some stages of grief — denial, maybe. I laughed and … Continue reading →

Wikipedia is a work in progress: That Wikipedia is a work in progress may be obvious to the hardcore Wikipedians (the worldwide corps of volunteers who are heavy contributors, editors and administrators and other levels of hierarchy I haven’t quite … Continue reading →

The ROI on sending free stuff to bloggers: According to an article in the Washington Post, Nokia cut back on traditional advertising and PR for its N-series phone and, rather, sent samples to 50 “tech savvy” amateur bloggers with a … Continue reading →

Scott Karp: (From the Publishing 2.0 post, “Lack of Transparency in Pay-Per-Click Ads and TV Ads: A Tale of Two Ad Councils“) “Wouldn’t it be great if there were an advertising system that was fully transparent and thus didn’t require … Continue reading →

About Wikipedia ‘edits’: (from a Wikimania session on “Contribution patterns among active Wikipedians,” some statistics presented by Wikipedian and graduate student, Seth Anthony): As of this morning, the English version of Wikipedia has: 1.3 million articles 500 million words 1.9 … Continue reading →

Wikimania – Saturday morning: …The first session is finishing up, and, frankly, I can’t do justice to Yochai Benkler‘s brilliance by trying to boil it down to a few points on this post. Maybe, I will try later. In the … Continue reading →