Associated Press to Reign In Web Content
Thursday, August 20, 2009
An article in the Raw Story last week spills the beans on Associated Press plans to centralize their content on the web rather than allowing licensees to publish AP stories on their own web sites. Licensees would print AP stories as they always have, but would have to link to the AP web site for stories that are unique to the AP such as special interest and investigative reporting pieces.

Army Jumps on Board as Government Increasingly Embraces Wikis
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
The NYT reports that the Army has started moving its field guides, traditionally written by theorists and strategists, to a Mediawiki site. The goal is to get more real-field examples and experience from active soldiers and consolidate the vast collection of printed field guides into a single source.

Digital Textbooks In California
Monday, August 17, 2009
A story on WBUR's Weekend Edition caught my attention with an alarming fact: the average public school text book costs $100. When is the last time you spent that much on a book? I don't think I have, ever - even in college. The fact was slipped into a story about California's recent vetting of digital text books for use in its public school system, a change that is hoped could save the state $200 million annually.

Web Content 2009 - Day 2
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Here's my day two wrap-up of Web Content 2009 conference sessions.

Why Wave Is Important
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Casual Internet users will likely see Wave as another neat web tool from Google, but a technical analysis of its makeup indicates that Wave is a significant paradigm shift with enormous potential. It's my sense that Wave is a major evolutionary step for Internet-based communication. Here's why.

BarCamp Boston 4 - Wrap Up
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
BarCamp Boston 4 was a great time. Being my first barcamp, I was amazed at how thoroughly the event was self-organized and how smoothly it ran. If a conference could be implemented as a wiki, it would be a barcamp. Truly an eye-opening experience. This image is the schedule board at the end of the event. It shows both Saturday and Sunday with a column for each of the rooms (holding between 60 and 120 people each) and a row for each of the half-hour time slots.

BarCamp Boston 4 This Weekend
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
This weekend I?ll be attending my first BarCamp at MIT in Cambridge. I?ve heard great things about the previous years from folks I know who have gone.

Wiki Turns 14 - Thanks Ward!
Thursday, March 26, 2009
I?m a day late on this, I know? it?s been a crazy week. The AboutUs blog posted a happy birthday message to wiki technology yesterday and launched WikiBirthday.org to celebrate. The first wiki created by Ward Cunningham (who went on to start AboutUs) went live 14 years ago yesterday. The commemoration got lots of attention on Twitter, and a NYT syndicated post in ReadWriteWeb.

Wikipedia Revolution
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
A book released today by Andrew Lih chronicles the story of Wikipedia. The timing is great - it seems more and more like Wikipedia is almost ?finished?. Not that it will stop changing and growing, but the bulk of steady content it needs to be great is there. It?s the 9th most visited web site on the Internet (thanks in large part to Google bumping it to the top of most search results) and there?s talk of publishing sections of it with real paper.

TV Show Wikis: A Perfect Marriage
Monday, March 16, 2009
One of the most prolific categories of wiki use is the TV show fan wiki. Freebie wiki hosts Wetpaint and Wikia have practically built their business on them. All of the eight sites highlighted on Wetpaint?s home page are TV show fan sites, and Wikia has made an art of Top 10 entertainment mashup lists as pointers into various TV and movie wikis. As somebody who doesn?t watch much TV, I am amazed at the devotion and time fans pour into these often gargantuan sites. It appears that having an active fan wiki has become a marketing must-have for network television.

Recent Changes Camp 2009
Monday, March 2, 2009

Is ReadWriteWeb Reliable Enough for Wikipedia?
Friday, February 13, 2009