After a lock-down to reassess the project, the Defra wiki has re-opened for business. On the front page is the following caveat:
The wiki is currently OPEN - we normally “lock” the wiki overnight – between about 6pm and 8am UK time – to prevent editing or registering for new accounts during this period.
To control the [...]
Defra re-opens
‘She opened government to everyone’
Whether that epitaph is ultimately true or not, there is no denying that former Texas Governor Ann Richards — who died Wednesday after a bout with esophageal cancer — made the effort to make is so. She was a firebrand grandmother figure, the kind everyone would want to have and never want to cross, who [...]
Collaborative movie making
The Entertainment Computing Research Group here at IU spent most of this past year trying to understand machinima. My personal interest in machinima is as a video prototyping tool, more than the focus on entertainment that has dominated the genre. But as a group, we were en route to examining how to improve the tools [...]
Some things of interest from today’s IDS
I love the local student paper. It’s free, and it’s got some interesting things you don’t get even in the other local paper (which, grrr, restricts access to its web stories). A sample from today …
Wikipedia to take on academia
Hot on the heels of the Wall Street Journal article on a debate between big wigs [...]
Coach to have surgery
Sad news from the IU football front. Several months after the problem was first detected, Indiana University football coach Terry Hoeppner will have brain surgery tomorrow (Wednesday). Unbelievably, a recurrence of a tumor may only sideline him for 2-4 weeks.
Under Coach Hep, the Hoosiers have started 2-0 for a third straight season … the [...]
Death of the Encyclopedia
Today, the Wall Street Journal Online published an interesting debate between the head honchos of Wikipedia and Britannica. The latter has been around since 1768; the former has been online since 2001. Jimmy Wales, the founder and chairman of the Wikimedia Foundation, squared off against Dale Hoiberg, the current senior vice president and editor in [...]
SciFoo sparks some questions
My interest in unconferences — a self-organizing group discussion in a particular domain — is buoyed by an account of Science Foo Camp (courtesy of a tip from the Skinny Dipper). SciFoo is modeled after the Tim O’Reilly’s FooCamp, started in 2003, and was invitation only for some 200 scientists. According to a Forbe’s article [...]