http://blog.citizendium.org Weblog about the Citizendium project and its Citizens. Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:44:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en  WREG, channel 3 in Memphis, was the first to do reporting about WatchKnow.  They covered the launch event which was held at the house of the project funder.  Excellent positive coverage, we're very happy about it! UPDATE: another Memphis-area news source covered WatchKnow: "Web site a directory for learners, teachers alike" ... http://blog.citizendium.org/?p=553 I'm delighted to announce that WatchKnow (http://www.watchknow.org/) is launching today!  Dive in! The new site makes educational videos for kids ridiculously easy to find.  We are launching with over 10,000 videos placed in over 2,000 categories, arranged in a very handy directory.  The site is a new kind of wiki: working together, contributors ... http://blog.citizendium.org/?p=550 We now have an officially empanelled Charter Drafting Committee (below). A gmail account was used to collect the votes, and Hayford Peirce did the tallying. He says a few other people had access to the account. Hayford then (today) gave me access to the account as well as the ... http://blog.citizendium.org/?p=546 I thought I would link to this blog post from FT's Richard Waters, which dramatically claims, to my surprise, that I am "ready to jump ship" from the wonderful Citizendium, which I continue to love, and which I would never intentionally harm. In fairness, I think Waters reported the ... http://blog.citizendium.org/?p=541 Should the drinking age be lowered from 21 to a younger age? http://blog.citizendium.org/?p=539 Yesterday I turned 41, and I got a zillion "happy birthdays" in various locations, more than I got on my 40th birthday, which I thought was very strange. I finally did some poking around online and figured out why. I was mentioned, again, by Garrison Keillor, this time ... http://blog.citizendium.org/?p=536 I just had a question for everyone -- has anyone heard that anything like syndicated Web ratings, as described here, was under new or renewed development by anyone? http://blog.citizendium.org/?p=534 Yes or no. If no, why do we keep making them? http://blog.citizendium.org/?p=532 For me, the bloom is off the rose. The Internet affects us psychologically and socially in ways that people like Maggie Jackson and Nicholas Carr -- to name just two -- have been writing about fascinatingly. (I have written and spoken about the individual impact of the Internet a fair bit ... http://blog.citizendium.org/?p=522 In an informative update, Seth Finkelstein has summed up the fallout to my Open Letter to Jimmy Wales. Among other things, Florence Devouard, former Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation, is quoted as saying, "I know it will only be a small satisfaction, but I ... http://blog.citizendium.org/?p=519