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My friend Sacha is putting together a SXSW panel - Living in the Matrix: Communicating past Agent ‘Smith’ based on a geek conversation we have on community moderation. I’m sharing the ideas below and if you like it, or want to hear more about it, please vote for the panel so that [...]
The ‘World wide web’ is a romantic concept -
World: belongs to everyone Wide: no boundary Web: links everyone together.
But my romantic interpretation has been interrupted by the not so romantic everlasting online abuse problem and hence the proposed CAPTCHA feature in a work meeting. Now here’s my view (supported by some research)…
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Blogs are great for asynchronous communications and documenting your streams of thoughts. But when everything is within a few clicks from search, your blogs are who you are to many. Recently I have been struggling to assess what I want to do with this blog. So i’ve done some research – what blogs are for [...]
I did a lengthy post for YDN links here.
For those who’re interested in the presentation on Wikipedia’s Community deep dive, check out the deck here:
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It’s been almost 4 years since I started observing [...]
A while ago I wrote about the buzz around Fire Eagle, and I’m happy to announce that Steve Marshall is giving a presentation on Fire Eagle, at the Over the Air hack day here at Imperial College.
In nutshell, Fire Eagle is,
Fire Eagle is the secure and stylish way to [...]
It’s been a while since we get to talk about Marshall McLuhan, one of the most important thinkers of the time who coined ‘medium is the message’. Talking about his theories actually reminded me of some good times of sharing ideas and ideals back then in my good-old teens… I guess time flies, and [...]
This thesis would not be possible without the generous support, invaluable guidance, and most importantly, the unconditional trust from my supervisor, Dr. C. H. Ng, who has been my omni-potent ‘See Fu’ (master) in new media and communication studies, one with so much passion and faith in elucidating what it means to teach, and to [...]
Wow.
That’s already one week in Boston and 4 more weeks before London? I only have a month in Hong Kong and I already start missing the place. But I know I will have fun in London… Just gotta round up my thesis now. Lok gave me some good advice in the importance of having [...]
Jimbo started the keynote with the Colbert’s Analysis on Wikipedia and this:
/Refering to John Seigenthaler incident: ‘Apparently, there was an error in Wikipedia’
/everybody laughed
He also mentioned what Wikipedia needs, especially when it comes to representativeness. With the Wikimedia Foundation maturing, it is easier to apply grant and start other projects. [...]
I was quite sleep-deprived yesterday and man, I locked myself up after shower, realized I didn’t bring the key and basically just panicking – lucky enought I came across Brian and half-dying James, and they called and rescued me with the nice Indian guard that I happened to chat with. That was really lucky. Or [...]
