Things Dokuwiki doesn’t tell you
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Open and Shut
Nupedia founder Larry Sanger wrote a Kuro5hin article about how Wikipedia sux. Funny story — apparently Wikipedia started out as the scratch pad for Nupedia, which was based on carefully vetted articles. A year after it started, Nupeida died with…
NYT – Myths Run Wild in Blog Tsunami Debate
The New York Times January 3, 2005 COMMUNICATIONS Myths Run Wild in Blog Tsunami Debate By JOHN SCHWARTZ As the horror of the South Asian tsunami spread and people gathered online to discuss the disaster on sites known as Web…
Dose of Reality
Even though I am getting fewer Pakistani mortgage offers, my anti-spam hobby will probably need to give way to a new video game. A veteran speaks out in the name of futility: THIS IS NOT A HOBBY. If you want…
LJ Parody
In some ways, LiveJournal is one of the more powerful and convenient “online communities” around. Unfortunately this is partially due to it’s insularity — a walled garden approach to community building. Walled gardens can be pleasant, unless the gardener starts…
Warrior
Crawling out from a SimCity binge (fortunately it was version 3 — version 4 might have put me under for the Winter…) and looking for another expression of digital monomania, I started hunting spammers. Not the spam sent to the…