I made a bunch of edits to the Wired article midday today, since a 3p Pacific cutoff loomed today. The article will be poured over by paid editors at that point, who likely will trim it back down to the size it was since it doubled in length.
I think I got rid of as [...]
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More on Defra
Since it was timely, I added a reference to the Defra wiki experiment to Wired’s communal writing project*, since both are likely going to be put up as THE examples of failed wikis for the near future.
There is a nice analysis on the Defra failure by someone who worked at the Department for Constitutional Affairs. [...]
Approver.com
This blog post has a nice overview of how Approver.com works, so I won’t try to duplicate. I wonder if some School of Informatics student or alum might think to come up with a similar tool for the Decider Protocol (PDF) that Marty advocates in his HCI classes. (Decider.com is taken, but not DeciderProtocol.com …)
There [...]
Baby Talk Trash
A few years too late for my offspring — like they needed this learning aid? — comes Team Baby Entertainment. The company’s motto is “Raising Tomorrow’s Fan Today!”
Team Baby has a line of officially-licensed sports themed children’s DVDs aimed at teaching baby’s how to appreciate the college team of caregiver choice. So far, there is [...]