AmazonFail Prompts the Creation of a Site that Doesn’t Discriminate
Monday, August 10, 2009
After the infamous AmazonFail, when the popular online bookseller was accused of denying GLBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender) books access to its promotional systems, Mel Keegan was prompted to take a closer look at the way GLBT books were categorized and subjugated all over the web.

Boston Needs a Calagator
Monday, March 23, 2009
Perusing session notes from Recent Changes Camp 2009, I came across a mention of Calagator, a unified calendar for the technology community of Portland, Oregon. The site is a custom Rails application that serves as an events calendar with wiki-style open posting and editing. The data model is simple: Events and Venues. The site?s narrow focus, open access and simplicity make it a great resource. It also shows that Portland has a very active technology culture.

San Francisco Post Chronicle
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Newspapers around the country are closing their doors, stopping paper printing, in bankruptcy or some combination of these in the face of online competition and dwindling advertising revenue due to the economic downturn. This problem has effected many smaller local papers as well as major urban papers including The Seattle Post-Intelligencer (the Boston Globe of the Northwest), Rocky Mountain News, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, The Philadelphia Inquirer and Minneapolis Star-Tribune.

Is TheOfficialBoard.com a wiki?
Monday, March 9, 2009
A TechCrunch post today announced the launch of a new org chart site that aims to document the management structure of the world?s 20,000 largest corporations. Normally I don?t read TechCrunch, but the use of Wiki in the title brought it up in my Google News fetchermajiggy. The title of the post is ?TheOfficialBoard Launches With Wiki Org Charts For 20,000 Companies?. Is TheOfficialBoard really a wiki?

LOLCat Bible Translation Project
Monday, February 23, 2009

A Flock of Twittter Wikis
Wednesday, February 11, 2009