I said something to this effect last week on Uncontrolled Vocabulary, but it bears repeating.
ACRLog discusses algorithmic attempts to authenticate online information, touching on, among other things, the recent Wired story about the Wikipedia Scanner, which mines IP addresses from Wikipedia edits to find out just who’s saying that Diebold never makes mistakes or what […]
The latest issue of The Outrider, a publication of the Wyoming State Library, just came out, and in it there’s a story about a great new project, the Wyoming Authors Wiki.
The site has an impressive list of writers already represented, and I’ll be watching to see how it grows.
My mother, Judith Crossett, is a geriatric psychiatrist (or, as we usually put it, she treats old crazy people). She works at the University of Iowa, where she treats patients and also teaches in the medical school. A few weeks ago she was telling me about the first thing she teaches any medical student or […]