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of a website that set up to criticize a doctor (phd but medical related) http://www.seedwiki.com/wiki/debunkingnase/

boston, cambridge
a guide to problematical library use
http://www.seedwiki.com/wiki/guide_to_problematica l_library_use

boston, cambridge
a guide to problematical library use
http://www.seedwiki.com/wiki/guide_to_problematica l_library_use

Collaborate with your classmates (if such is allowed by class/university rules) online. Starting a class blog, or Yahoo! group can help keep you and your classmates up-to-date, and provide a good forum for "what the heck was the prof saying?" type of questions.

I've had success this past semester using seedwiki.com a free wiki to collaborate on a research paper

If the articles you discuss keep on getting erased, you can always create your own wiki.

Here is a Wiki about it (in swedish).
Wiki

Other good swedish sites who may or may not bring it up is

EF Sverige Swedish EFF - where we had some discussion about the new law in our internal email lists.

Gnuheter news like Slashdot but in swedish.

It looks like someone has started a project to analyze ComScore's spyware. It looks like one goal is to forge user data so that the spyware servers can be flooded with false data. Check out their Wiki at:
http://www.seedwiki.com/page.cfm?wikiid=1131&doc=C omSpyware

Here is the original WikiWikiWeb: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WelcomeVisitors
Here is a Wiki you can easily install on your own machine: http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/swiki/15
Here is a free Wiki farm that let's you start your own on a shared server: http://www.seedwiki.com

Please don't take my post as a criticism of k12linux. I was responding to the previous poster's comments. I said what I said only because I felt the previous poster was missing Scaramush's main point about simplicity and ease-of-use.

I am not part of k12linux, but I have written open source code, I did teach middle-school kids computer-skills, and I have edited other people's wiki-enabled web pages. See seedwiki.com for proof.

What about you? When was the last time you simplified someone else's web page instead of just adding to it? And when was the last time you deleted useless software features instead of just adding more of your own? Telling someone to simplify and refactor their work is not easy. I'm sure not going to tell them. I don't know these people. I was just responding to a comment made in the context of Scaramush's suggestion. That's all.

Stephan

[Shameless Plug:] Our Wiki farm solves this problem in three ways.

1) I allows for the traditional Wiki notation PageLink, but it displays the link this way: Page Link
2) It allows you to use a free optional WYSIWYG editor, so you only need to highlight the text in question and click on a button.
3) And just like dreamweaver, it allows you to use and edit standard html.

"Also, access restrictions are necessary in many contexts. "

Yes, Seedwiki.com has that. It has different levels of protection which can be mixed and matched, but we don't encourage our Wiki owners and visitors to use those features until they become absolutely necessary.

Stephan

Random people have started Wikis on our site for writing books, scheduling batting cages, writing grants, selling Tibetian art, brainstorming, asking random questions, starting clubs, archiving pictures, and the list goes on and on.

I wish I could explain the underlying power of the Wiki, but this is something I am barely beginning to understand myself. Hope this helps.

Stephan

I agree, the entire thing is creepy. To me, this so-called "personalization" trend seems to be only skin-deep and completely self-serving.

Just the other day, I was at an hour long sales presentation where the sales woman simply refused to jot down any of our suggestions for the product. "That wasn't her job." She said. "That's Marketing." Her idea of personalization was probably, "Sir, may I call you by your first name." Of course, this would have been fine if anyone else could have bought her product, but that wasn't the case, we were probably the only one who could buy it from her.

Anyway, how many of us are typing less as a result of personalization? I'm certainly not, if anything, I am actually typing more because of it. When I call my credit card company, I now have to give my credit card number twice now. I wonder why? And when I am browsing the Internet, it seems many sites actually want to "personalize" my experience before I am even allowed to see the content. Again, why are they doing this?

Skin-deep personalization is so easy, it may be the answer to every Marketer's wet dream, but it is certainly not the answer to mine.

On a side-note: Has anyone ever thought of using a Wiki-like application to respond to their costumers wants and desires? (A Wiki is a collaborative web site that lets any visitor add content, edit content, or simply change its design) I am asking this because this is currently one of the projects I am working on, and I would welcome any feedback, whether good or bad.

Stephan

"We will create a world parallel to and embedded in the "real" world, drawing on external events, issues and objects but with its own characters, events and objects. This world will exist primarily in the Internet, but it will occasionally reach into people's lives through a wide variety of media - including faxes, telephone calls and live acting."

Hopefully, they won't need "death threats" to make their World entertaining.

Stephan

PS: I am not affiliated with that group, except for the fact that they're using my Wiki farm to host their own Wiki.

PS2: A Wiki is a collaborative web site that can be edited and organized by its visitors. See the original Wiki Wiki Web invented by Ward Cunningham.

"We will create a world parallel to and embedded in the "real" world, drawing on external events, issues and objects but with its own characters, events and objects. This world will exist primarily in the Internet, but it will occasionally reach into people's lives through a wide variety of media - including faxes, telephone calls and live acting."

Hopefully, they won't need "death threats" to make their World entertaining.

Stephan

PS: I am not affiliated with that group, except for the fact that they're using my Wiki farm to host their own Wiki.

PS2: A Wiki is a collaborative web site that can be edited and organized by its visitors. See the original Wiki Wiki Web invented by Ward Cunningham.