I finally got around to setting up Batan City as a wiki. It was about 10 years ago that I first discussed the idea with Tatiana and Rosie. I took a long look at Drupal as an alternative CMS but the effort required to set up Drupal seemed so much greater than the MediaWiki package I finally opted for what I know (and love). I will probably regret it later – particularly when I want to start restricting editing rights… we will see.
YouTube Googled…
October 9, 2006
Reuters are talking about $1.65bn…
Why don’t Brin and Page add real shareholder value and buy the PR North Korea? They could save the world and set up MNorthKorean (like MTurk but scary) and get Google a seat on the Security Council of the UN.
a9 neutered
October 7, 2006No more blockview from a9 . I wonder if they might give it to Yellowikis? Mechanical Turk still seems to be running.
The only HIT that Amazon Research seems to be offering on MTurk is $0.50 for a scan of your grocery bill plus a version of it as an excel spreadsheet.
I wonder what that’s all about?
ezPCwiki Googled
October 7, 2006Google indexed Ivan’s new wiki 8 days after he told them about the site.
Working at home publishers
October 4, 2006Random Flickr links lead me to Steve Bowbrick’s blog which took me to Jay Rosen’s New Assignment.Net that led me to Paul Bass’ article on “Creating the New Haven Independent” on PressThink. Much of the debate in the comments was about revenue models which reminded me of The Best of and My Mag franchises. Sales and marketing people are just as interested in finding new opportunities as local newspapers dissolve in the face of Craig Newmarks’ lists.
Now I’m wondering if one of the big advertising groups would give Yellowikis $100,000 as a start-up gift like Reuters did for New Assignment.Net.
Clip Art Commons
September 30, 2006I just discovered the Open Clip Art Library. Looks like a great resource – will investigate further tomorrow.
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