I’ve been following the discussion at the Web 2.0 Forum with interest. In summary, Michael Gorman of Encyclopaedia Britannica complains that Web 2 …

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I just discovered Python’s awesome dateutil package which implements much of the iCalendar standard, including recurrences! Consequently, it’s trivial to generate a calendar …

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Given a wretched experience with using Microsoft Word for my Masters thesis 10 years ago, I decided to try LaTeX this time around. One might …

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While grading papers I noticed that a student referred to the Wikipedia definition of teleonomy, a concept I have discussed in class, with a quotation …

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Sanger’s latest article, Who Says We Know: on the New Politics of Knowledge is an argument that meritocracy, including an authority accorded to credentialed …

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Recently two short essays, which started out as blog entries here, have been published in collections that might be of interest to readers. In Re-public …

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Longtime readers will know I’ve been frequently frustrated and puzzled by NYU’s infrastructural choices. When I first arrived I learned they used my …

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Since I am a student of plagiarism in reference work production, I read with interest Daniel Brandt’s (2006) analysis of Plagiarism by Wikipedia editors …

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On the Association of Internet Researchers mailing list Tamara Paradis raised the question of the origins of the term “Internet”. I am not sure why …

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Like others, I have been surprised that the Wikipedia policies of No Original Research (WP:NOR, Wikipedia 2006nor) and Verifiability (WP:V, Wikipedia 2006v) had …

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