It's the "radical collaboration" that created the critical mass in Wikipedia, and I'd also add, they were the first to achieve it (thus gaining the primary marketing position), and lightning almost always doesn't strike twice.
Citizendium is doomed to never achieve critical mass, as any elitist endeavor in the Open Age never does.
I totally agree with the ideas expressed in this post. There's no reason why MediaWiki software could not be updated to determine what links can reasonably be trusted.
Beyond this, I'm certain that Google could easily (and I mean **easily**) ignore "nofollow" on links in the Wikipedia sites. It would certainly be a very minor tweak to their spidering/ranking software. I would even encourage Google and other search engines to work against what Wikipedia is doing. It's anti-community and anti-web.
I say all this as three-year editor on Wikipedia. The spamming isn't *that* bad.
Re:I'm on Win2K and *still* see no reason to upgra
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But that's in two years! I think I will survive nicely, thank you. And I currently have enough experience with Linux to totally move over to that if I so choose.
So, what reason do I have to upgrade to a new version of Windows TODAY?
I'm on Win2K and *still* see no reason to upgrade.
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XP and Vista are just OS's with a bunch of useless bells and whistles.
I am totally productive with web programming on Windows 2000.
I bet nobody can give me one reason to upgrade. Reasons simply don't exist.
I just went to the flea market at the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville last weekend, and I witnessed many vendors openly selling pirated movies.
This is what has been pissing me off to no end... I'm at my best in terms of programming skill at 39yo, but companies expressly want college newbies they can exploit (read: harshly control and financially rape). Companies just don't want experience any more.
Why would anyone who is sane go into a career that's all but guaranteed to be cut off at age 35??
I wrote a web-based mood tracker that looks at particular strings entered into blog and discussion board posts related to whether President Bush should be impeached or otherwise removed from office.
From the article: "PHP UTF-8 is intended to make it possible to handle UTF-8 encoded strings in PHP, without requiring the mbstring extension (although it uses mbstring if it's available). In short, it provides versions of PHP's string functions (pretty much everything you'll find on this list), prefixed with utf_ and aware of UTF-8 encoding (that 1character >= 1 byte). It also gives you some tools to help check UTF-8 strings for "well formedness", strip bad sequences and some "ASCII helpers"."
With movies like Capote, Good Night and Good Luck, and Brokeback Mountain, I'm going to have to disagree that there haven't been movies lately worth going to the theater to see. These movies are masterpieces. Honest. Not kidding.
Agreed that there are no absolutes
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But I would like to see a party that holds my positions as its platform, even if compromises are required from time to time.
I would much prefer a form of government where the people could directly decide all issues on their own merits, but the technologies and interest in such a thing aren't here yet. I tend to believe that ultimately, people usually vote for ideas that give them the most freedom. And this, of course, is why both Republicans and Democrats don't like true democracy that much.
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What I want is a party that:
defends civil liberties to the hilt.
engenders _true_ free market competition and regularly breaks up monopolies (no more support of farcical "free markets" that really means support of rampaging global corporatists and oligarchs).
avidly supports and values small business and decentralized business in general over centralized big corporate business.
maintains an absolute separation of church and state (this falls under defending civil liberties).
understands that shared infrastructure and the commons are key to society's development and enrichment.
is suspicious of *both* industrial and government power, but understands that _elected_ government entities have a role in ensuring that power players don't screw up civil liberties and that shared infrastructure is constructed and maintained.
will value everyday citizens over corporate CEOs, a large minority of whom are sociopathic.
provides both basic health care and education, with options for citizens to seek private alternatives or add-ons.
will deflate the military-industrial complex and *stop* getting the U.S. into elective conflicts.
will get serious about energy alternatives and environmental protection.
Any party up to fulfilling this platform?
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I'll answer the criticisms with one statement:
Centralized corporate power is just as dangerous to personal liberty as is centralized government power. I despise and oppose both.
The public needs its own power base.
Further, anyone who barks that power grabbers wouldn't use a libertarian system to enslave most of us (thereby eliminating our personal liberty) is an abject MORON. Corporations are ALREADY making headway on this front, and EVERYONE KNOWS IT.
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My points on Libertarianism:
The Libertarian economy: Runaway to Ruin
Libertarianism is like communism: both look great on paper.
Libertarians never seem to understand that lifting all constraints from powerful organizations ultimately means the end of freedom and democracy. Why can't they see the end game of their simplistic thinking?
Libertarianism constitutes the ultimate in linear thought processes.
The central problem (and irony) with big-L Libertarianism is that ultimately, in this linear system of thinking, all liberty is lost. Libertarianism always seems to leave out the concept of the big-power players, who obviously will always exist and will always work to build their power at the expense of the masses. Libertarianism leads to a feudalist society with no liberties. That's why I say Yes to small-l libertarianism for individuals, and No to big-L Libertarianism for corporations and industries, which I believe must *always* be regulated by small-d democratic fiat.
be supported on any discussion boards I run. They will have to fend for themselves, or change the way they access e-mail.
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If it doesn't have megabytes of AJAXified folksonomistic taggable crap with rounded corners, it's not in the list!
I assume you're trying to be funny, but indeed, the StumbleUpon service does indeed utilize Ajax. And in my opinion, they don't overuse or abuse it.
Why is StumbleUpon ignored by these surveys?
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I mean, if you haven't tried StumbleUpon yet, with its fantastic Firefox extension, you haven't seen nothing yet. Del.icio.us is a very poor design in comparison.
a discussion board and a wiki into a portal, and it would be easiest if all these were developed with similar technologies (I know all of this could easily be done with existing PHP-based apps). A blog-like component could be created via tying a page on the portal site into a forum that resides in the discussion board, or you could integrate dedicated blog software.
Also, given that your community will want to deliberate and reach decisions, you would likely want peer-rated discussion and enhancing polling in the board. Of course, wikis also provide for "talk", but IMHO, wikis are best left for collective reference/documentation building, not ongoing discussion/deliberation.
As long as you provide the portal/hub that ties together the ability to build a community reference, discuss/deliberate subjects of importannce, and somehow come to decisions, you will then have the basics of an online community.
Of course, this is all just a nutshell off the top of my head.
After 10 years in the industry here's what I think about references: screw 'em.
I actually agree in principle. I think it's time for the idea of having to provide references should be scrapped from the job search process. Why? Simple. Because many people provide false references (read: friends) anyway, and because of the shakiness of the business world (especially IT) over the past several years, it has become too difficult to track down people who would be our references.
Without a more fail-proof system for references, we're just going to see a lot more people lying about their references. And that's because that will be the only choice they have if they wish to eat and have shelter.
Slashdot Mirror
Flickr already does it, and I've used it to find relevant images for Wikipedia articles.
It's the "radical collaboration" that created the critical mass in Wikipedia, and I'd also add, they were the first to achieve it (thus gaining the primary marketing position), and lightning almost always doesn't strike twice.
Citizendium is doomed to never achieve critical mass, as any elitist endeavor in the Open Age never does.
As opposed to 50 to 60 percent in the United States. hmmm...
I totally agree with the ideas expressed in this post. There's no reason why MediaWiki software could not be updated to determine what links can reasonably be trusted.
Beyond this, I'm certain that Google could easily (and I mean **easily**) ignore "nofollow" on links in the Wikipedia sites. It would certainly be a very minor tweak to their spidering/ranking software. I would even encourage Google and other search engines to work against what Wikipedia is doing. It's anti-community and anti-web.
I say all this as three-year editor on Wikipedia. The spamming isn't *that* bad.
But that's in two years! I think I will survive nicely, thank you. And I currently have enough experience with Linux to totally move over to that if I so choose.
So, what reason do I have to upgrade to a new version of Windows TODAY?
XP and Vista are just OS's with a bunch of useless bells and whistles.
I am totally productive with web programming on Windows 2000.
I bet nobody can give me one reason to upgrade. Reasons simply don't exist.
I just went to the flea market at the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville last weekend, and I witnessed many vendors openly selling pirated movies.
And the MPAA is worried about movie downloads???
This is what has been pissing me off to no end... I'm at my best in terms of programming skill at 39yo, but companies expressly want college newbies they can exploit (read: harshly control and financially rape). Companies just don't want experience any more.
Why would anyone who is sane go into a career that's all but guaranteed to be cut off at age 35??
This whole thing is a gas. Copyright violation, my ass.
I wrote a web-based mood tracker that looks at particular strings entered into blog and discussion board posts related to whether President Bush should be impeached or otherwise removed from office.
Link to Bush-Be-Gone Index
No matter your politics, I think how the index moves up and down depending on particular events is somewhat fascinating.
The one with the vision needs to be the leader.
Check out this recent article by Harry Fuecks.
From the article: "PHP UTF-8 is intended to make it possible to handle UTF-8 encoded strings in PHP, without requiring the mbstring extension (although it uses mbstring if it's available). In short, it provides versions of PHP's string functions (pretty much everything you'll find on this list), prefixed with utf_ and aware of UTF-8 encoding (that 1character >= 1 byte). It also gives you some tools to help check UTF-8 strings for "well formedness", strip bad sequences and some "ASCII helpers"."
With movies like Capote, Good Night and Good Luck, and Brokeback Mountain, I'm going to have to disagree that there haven't been movies lately worth going to the theater to see. These movies are masterpieces. Honest. Not kidding.
But I would like to see a party that holds my positions as its platform, even if compromises are required from time to time.
I would much prefer a form of government where the people could directly decide all issues on their own merits, but the technologies and interest in such a thing aren't here yet. I tend to believe that ultimately, people usually vote for ideas that give them the most freedom. And this, of course, is why both Republicans and Democrats don't like true democracy that much.
Any party up to fulfilling this platform?
I'll answer the criticisms with one statement:
Centralized corporate power is just as dangerous to personal liberty as is centralized government power. I despise and oppose both.
The public needs its own power base.
Further, anyone who barks that power grabbers wouldn't use a libertarian system to enslave most of us (thereby eliminating our personal liberty) is an abject MORON. Corporations are ALREADY making headway on this front, and EVERYONE KNOWS IT.
We have yet another reason to declare Open Season on the White House.
be supported on any discussion boards I run. They will have to fend for themselves, or change the way they access e-mail.
If it doesn't have megabytes of AJAXified folksonomistic taggable crap with rounded corners, it's not in the list!
I assume you're trying to be funny, but indeed, the StumbleUpon service does indeed utilize Ajax. And in my opinion, they don't overuse or abuse it.
I mean, if you haven't tried StumbleUpon yet, with its fantastic Firefox extension, you haven't seen nothing yet. Del.icio.us is a very poor design in comparison.
a discussion board and a wiki into a portal, and it would be easiest if all these were developed with similar technologies (I know all of this could easily be done with existing PHP-based apps). A blog-like component could be created via tying a page on the portal site into a forum that resides in the discussion board, or you could integrate dedicated blog software.
Also, given that your community will want to deliberate and reach decisions, you would likely want peer-rated discussion and enhancing polling in the board. Of course, wikis also provide for "talk", but IMHO, wikis are best left for collective reference/documentation building, not ongoing discussion/deliberation.
As long as you provide the portal/hub that ties together the ability to build a community reference, discuss/deliberate subjects of importannce, and somehow come to decisions, you will then have the basics of an online community.
Of course, this is all just a nutshell off the top of my head.
Hope this helps.
I was referring to other types of ads, and you know that.
I'd much prefer a site that didn't charge for the job listings, but also restricted them to real jobs, cutting out the third-party recruiters.
Small businesses need employees too.
If we can have an open community reference in Wikipedia, we can have an open job seeking site.
After 10 years in the industry here's what I think about references: screw 'em.
I actually agree in principle. I think it's time for the idea of having to provide references should be scrapped from the job search process. Why? Simple. Because many people provide false references (read: friends) anyway, and because of the shakiness of the business world (especially IT) over the past several years, it has become too difficult to track down people who would be our references.
Without a more fail-proof system for references, we're just going to see a lot more people lying about their references. And that's because that will be the only choice they have if they wish to eat and have shelter.
Makes me wonder if a job site could stay afloat with just advertising revenue and donations.
Perhaps only if actual jobs were posted directly from companies, there would be far fewer listings, and that would make it much cheaper by default.
Also, if the site started with a narrow focus, such as the IT professions, then it might be a lot easier to maintain and financially support.