Posts Tagged “conference”

Social software questions authority

by JS on October 25, 2006

A semi-rant based on a session at IL2006 The Scholarship in Chaos! panel never got to where I thought it would go — brainy brawl over things like open access, participatory information architecture, folksonomies, controlled vocabularies, peer review, and the (…)

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Second Life is not just gambling and porn

by JS on October 25, 2006

More adventures at IL2006 The Second Life Library 2.0 panel gave one of the best (and shortest) explanations of Second Life I’ve heard so far: “Its a community, not like a game with a point.” It might not have a (…)

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“Informed by human judgement”: Google isn’t God

by JS on October 23, 2006

Adventures at IL2006 I went to was Chris Sherman’s Search Engine Report session this morning, where early on he repeated the question (first?) posed in the headline of a NYT piece a few years ago: “Is Google God?” I don’t (…)

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