Monthly Archives: May 2008

Wikipedia’s identity crisis

By Flavie | Published: May 26, 2008
An article in today’s Globe and Mail describes the corporate transformations through which Wikipedia is going. The online encyclopedia is run by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization. But it has grown to a critical size and is finding itself with an inapropriate structure to support this growth. The foundation has moved its offices from [...]
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Why the US media is showing less

By Flavie | Published: May 22, 2008
Check this video of Alisa Miller, head of Public Radio International, on TED. She talks about the distortion of world news coverage in America in a pretty compelling way.
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YouTube launches citizen journalism channel

By Flavie | Published: May 22, 2008
YouTube has launched a channel dedicated to citizen journalism called CitizenNews. It intends to bring together the best of the news videos posted on the website. The channel has already subscribed to 80 citizen journalists members of YouTube. Personnally, I wonder if this is really the best of what YouTube has to offer. There is [...]
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More about wikis!

By Flavie | Published: May 20, 2008
So wikis really are the next big thing. ReadWriteWeb had a post yesterday on them, which turns out to be a pretty good analysis of the phenomenon, and also gives a fairly complete overview of the different providers and of all the use you can make of a wiki. Coincidentally, I also found this January 2007 [...]
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“Plastic, plastic everywhere”

By Flavie | Published: May 19, 2008
The North Pacific Gyre is getting an increasing attention. After a series of videos published on vbs.tv (Vice magazine’s internet television network,) the Globe and Mail reserved a full page today to this area located in the Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and California. Spreading on 26 million kilometres and described in the article as “a [...]
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Design Can Change

By Flavie | Published: May 17, 2008
An article published in today’s Life Style section of the Globe and Mail presents Design Can Change, a campaign launched by Vancouver designer Eric Karjaluoto. Following the principles explained by Malcolm Gladwell in The Tipping Point — social epidemics are better spread by small well-connected and influential groups — he launched his website to push [...]
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Wikis will make your life (and your company) better

By Flavie | Published: May 14, 2008
Linux Insider published an article today on Wikis, written by David Weekly, CEO of PBwiki. Weekly explains that “wikis provide a simple but powerful boost to collaboration and can quickly improve business productivity.” He writes that wikis are appropriate for team efforts and can centralize ideas pitched in by various contributors. They also allow users [...]
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The popularization of Digital libraries

By Flavie | Published: May 14, 2008
Digital libraries are getting more and more popular. They’re taking advantage of the Internet to deliver documents in all sorts of forms and shapes to their users. But some of them make it a priority to popularize and democratize their services by making them available free of charge. LibriVox is giving a new lease of life [...]
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Pangea Day

By Flavie | Published: May 11, 2008
So Pangea Day, this worldwide four-hour long film event, took place yesterday. And I haven’t found any review on it… It was broadcast on internet from Cairo, Kigali, London, Los Angeles, Mumbai, and Rio de Janeiro. Watch the films featured during Pangea Day here and a one-hour broadcast on Pangea Day’s webpage.
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