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August 30, 2006

Stolen phone automatically uploads photos of thief's family to Flickr

practicalist: authentic media, exhibit b — pictures of the family of the person who stole my cell phone posted to my flickr account: …what a great illustration of how social media, inadvertently or not, blows away all normally private separate...
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by xian
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on Wednesday, August 30, 2006
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August 8, 2006

Jason Scott on 'the great failure of Wikipedia'

I was looking at the Haddock blogs aggregator and in their links gutter I came across a transcript of a presentation given at Notacon 3 (whatever that is) in April of this year by Jason Scott. You can listen to...
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by xian
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December 21, 2005

Google Earth in the wrong hands?

A day or so after reading that a number of national governments are unhappy about Google Earth's aerial views of their sensitive buildings and installations, I read in the Telegraph (UK) about Insurgents 'using Google Earth'. There's no real way...
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by xian
at 9:47 AM
on Wednesday, December 21, 2005
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December 14, 2005

Discussing Siegenthaler and Wikipedia on CBC's "The Hour" tonight

I got a call from a producer of a CBC show, The Hour, last night, looking for someone who could discuss the Siegenthaler brouhaha on Wikipedia from both a cultural and technical perspective. Hey, I'm that guy! They taped five...
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by xian
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on Wednesday, December 14, 2005
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June 21, 2005

LA Times 'wikitorials' vandalized, taken down

It seems that the wiki got slashdotted, which lead to pr0n being posted (goatse, I wonder?), and the site being removed in response: Full Circle Online Interaction Blog: LA Times WikiTorial Update - vandalized. (via Nancy White, via Weblogsky)...
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by xian
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on Tuesday, June 21, 2005
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April 27, 2005

Note to self: Look before you leap

Was: Telemarketers, do not call my cellphone Passing this along, seems like a worthy blog meme to spread: In case you had not heard ... In a few weeks, cell phone numbers are being released to telemarketing companies and you...
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by xian
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on Wednesday, April 27, 2005
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December 12, 2004

Wiki spam

I suppose wiki spam is inevitable. I've set up the wiki part of this site to be fairly open to changes to encourage readers and visitors to interact, but now for the second time a spammer has dropped a bunch...
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by xian
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on Sunday, December 12, 2004
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