Tag Archives: wikipedia

I’ve Gotta Knol

Posted on August 13, 2008 by Dave

Knol is a reasonably new service from Google, which has been described as their attempt to kill, or at elast steal some traffic from, Wikipedia. It’s basically a way for people to publish information about what they know in the … Continue reading →

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Healthy scepticism

Posted on May 16, 2008 by Dave

One of the problems of being a new media fanboy like me is that we sometimes get a bit too excited about this stuff, and fail to see some of the downsides of web 2.0. That’s why I have a … Continue reading →

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The University of Wikipedia

Posted on January 14, 2008 by Dave

Mike Butcher at Techcrunch UK reports on a University tutor banning her students from researching essays on the web: The education world has pursued new technology with an almost evangelical zeal and it is time to take a step back … Continue reading →

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Seariki

Posted on January 3, 2008 by Dave

Seariki (a conflation of search and wiki) is a new China based search engine which provides a way of finding information in Wikipedia. The Wikipedia search itself can be slightly frustrating, in that if it can find an exact match … Continue reading →

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