Tag Archives: collective intelligence

A Wiki Noob

K.Spreeuwenberg | 30 October 2009, 7:36 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , ,

Posting a new entry on Wikipedia is not very difficult, but keeping it online is an impossible mission. These were the first lines of this post when I started writing it a couple of weeks ago. By now I changed my mind… I did it! I have a post on Wikipedia!

The Anti-Googlization: How Alternative Search Engines Find Their Way on the Web

Desiree de Jong | 21 October 2009, 4:36 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , , , , ,

On the website googlizationofeverything.com, theorist Siva Vaidhyanathan states that the current web is dominated in several ways by search engine Google. Google related sites and ‘Googleware’ like Google Books and Google Earth and the video channel YouTube. In a lot of countries, Google is by far the most used search engine; in the Netherlands, Google controls even more than 95…

Wikipedia: a Social Playground

Charlotte Hendriks | 22 September 2009, 11:53 am | tags: , , ,

The online encyclopedia Wikipedia is an interesting product of the Web 2.0. Wikipedia asks its users to actively participate, add and change the content of the website, in order to create a knowledge database which is more up to date and holds more information then any other encyclopedia in the world. Basically, Wikipedia employs a power to the people model, in…

The Wiki Beehive

Maarten Hoogvliet | 21 September 2009, 4:53 pm | tags: , , , , ,

Generally Wikipedia is praised for it’s collective driven overload of information.

“Britannica’s biggest errors are of omission, not commission. It’s shallow in some categories and out of date in many others. And then there are the millions of entries that it simply doesn’t–and can’t, given its editorial process–have. But Wikipedia can scale to include those and many more. Today Wikipedia offers 860,000…

Wikipedia changes our perception of knowledge

Suzanne Schram | 21 September 2009, 11:41 am | tags: , , , , , ,

Wikipedia differs greatly with the traditional encyclopedia. Examples of aspects of differentiation:

· Broader public: knowledge is for everyone.
· Authority: everyone can write for Wikipedia.
· Broader range of subjects: everyone can decide what is important to be included in Wikipedia. There is no limit on the size of Wikipedia.

Wikipedia can be accessed by everyone who has access to a computer. The…

POLITICS: WEB 2.0 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

Roman Tol | 13 May 2008, 2:03 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Written for the Institute of Network Cultures
Crossposted at Institute of Network Cultures Weblog

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On April 17th and 18th 2008 the department of Politics and International Relations at the Royal Holloway University of London (RHUL) organized Politics: Web 2.0: an international conference. The conference was large and diverse, with six distinguished keynotes, 120 papers organized into 41 panels,…