http://blog.citizendium.org/?p=297 Weblog about the Citizendium project and its Citizens. Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:16:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://blog.citizendium.org/?p=297#comment-93627 Paul Wormer Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:16:53 +0000 http://blog.citizendium.org/2008/04/08/new-video-about-wikipedia-web-20/#comment-93627 I saw the film on Dutch internet television [Larry with subtitles :-) ] and heard lots of talk about participation and social interaction. What I missed is the observation that most Web 2.0 contributors consider their anonimity (use of nickname) one of their basic human rights. I was raised with the (now apparently obsolete) norm that anonymous letters and phone calls are indecent. How Web 2.0 has changed that! You can read on Wikipedia's discussion pages lively social interactions between nicknamed persons, who may well be 180 degrees different from their WP user descriptions, and nobody seems to care. I saw the film on Dutch internet television [Larry with subtitles ] and heard lots of talk about participation and social interaction. What I missed is the observation that most Web 2.0 contributors consider their anonimity (use of nickname) one of their basic human rights. I was raised with the (now apparently obsolete) norm that anonymous letters and phone calls are indecent. How Web 2.0 has changed that! You can read on Wikipedia’s discussion pages lively social interactions between nicknamed persons, who may well be 180 degrees different from their WP user descriptions, and nobody seems to care.

]]> http://blog.citizendium.org/?p=297#comment-93585 Video: The Truth According To Wikipedia Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:19:09 +0000 http://blog.citizendium.org/2008/04/08/new-video-about-wikipedia-web-20/#comment-93585 [...] Sterkenburg posted a follow-up post here on Sunday which received 17 comments (so far) and even Larry Sanger (from Citizendium), one of the people interviewed in the documentary, pitches [...] [...] Sterkenburg posted a follow-up post here on Sunday which received 17 comments (so far) and even Larry Sanger (from Citizendium), one of the people interviewed in the documentary, pitches [...]

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