Clay Shirky notes a cycle of references created by a few people with the effect of promotion: a Wikipedia article for Symphony OS is referenced …

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[This entry is now deprecated, please see Thunderdell (Freemind Extract).]

I am releasing a new zipfile of the fe mindmapping bibliographic tools. As explained in …

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The Professional Lurker notes an article by the FreeRange Librarian which identifies the important role of deleting/removing material of dubious quality. This function, too …

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An example of how frustrating reliance on bad technology can be consider the following. NYU publishes a course catalog for the subsequent semester. However, NYU …

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When it comes to making claims, about reality or anything else really, a number of different stances might be adopted by the speaker:

• Objectivity: the …

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In moving to Kubuntu 5.04 from a Knoppix install, my loop-aes partitions are no longer readable. Since crypto-loop is being deprecated anyway, I thought …

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In a discussion on the possibility of limiting anonymous edits to the Wikipedia – resulting from the mad dash of unwelcome activity during April Fool’s …

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Just ten years after the first electronic computer was built, and two years after the release of IBM’s first mainframe, a collaborative association was …

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A segment on tonight’s MythBusters addresed the question of “whether buttered toast falls buttered side up or down more often?” This is one of …

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In a small seminar Sherry Turkle spoke of her work on relational artifacts: devices that present as having a mind of their own so as …

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