Internet Archive: Details: The Great Failure of Wikipedia:

“The Great Failure of Wikipedia”: Presentation by Jason Scott at Notacon 3 in Cleveland, Ohio, on Saturday, April 8, 2006. Covers the universally-editable encyclopedia-like site Wikipedia, architectural and procedural choices by co-founder Jimbo Wales and the often-unintended consequences of these choices and philosophy. Includes short overviews of the Brian Peppers Debacle, the Ashida Kim Controversy, and the fallacy of “Notability” and “Neutral Point of View” as implemented in Wikipedia as it currently stands.Not intended to be a “Wikipedia shouldn’t exist” screed, this speech/presentation is instead a quick-paced, profane listing of the results of Wikipedia’s great experiment and how reality is changing the endeavor inherently and permanently.

At Least Its Not A Vlog…carmel:

You know that video blogging has hit the big-time (not to mention podcasting) when it gets mentioned in a Sunday comic strip:

(And for those of you who are wondering, yes, I have permission – UClick lets you share their work for noncommercial purposes.)

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hilarious….

Open Source Mac – Free, Open-Source software for OS X:

ree and open-source software is good for you and good for the world. This is the best OS X software that we know of.

this is a great utility

slower, softer:

Old things are as interesting as new ones.

The speed and spectacular novelty of a particular innovation should never be a measure of its value or the basis of its justification. (But I get why they are).

We* need time to explore slow and ethical innovation.

We need more space for quiet voices, more room for thoughtfulness and more recognition of the value of boredom.

We have a lot to learn from the practices of late adopters, as well as those of the thoughtful, the sceptical, and the reluctant. We should watch them. We should listen.

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Jean hits something on the head that is central to some of my work. Not the boredom aspect per se, though as many in my polisci grad program will recall, i do own a book entitle boredom, that has a black cover with golden/white letters that i used to pretend to read…. no, it is more about the critical spaces found in slowness, and the opportunity, oft passed over, for deep thought found in slowness.