BurningbirdThanks to Danny Ayers, I’ve now heard about CoComment a service to track your comments. Thanks to Phil at Squash, I’ve also heard about the so-called conversation index originated by Stowe Boyd. I don’t comment in other weblogs enough to care about CoComment (and shame on me for not doing more). It will be interesting to see this in action, but for […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Two stories on search engine companies in the last few weeks, and I have little to write specifically on either. I tend to agree with the ACLU that the issue with the federal subpoena of Google, MSN, and Yahoo doesn’t show just cause, and I want to write on privacy […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I was rather stunned this morning to read a good-bye message from Lauren at Feministe: After almost exactly six years as a blogger, about three of them at this domain, I believe it’s time for me to bow out. My dedication to my writing here has waned and I am tired […]
There were a lot of good comments in the sock puppet post, and I’m going to just pull out bits without giving proper credit, because I’m a bit tired today, and actually not feeling all that great. I am in the Wikipedia now. Does this make me an insider who is an outsider? Or an […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. There is considerably more organization to Wikipedia than meets the eye. For instance, not all user accounts are treated equally, and specific types of users can be banned from Wikipedia access. One such type of user is known as a sock puppet or, more typically, sockpuppet. A sockpuppet is a Wikipedia contributor who […]