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This is an old page from Rod Begbie's blog.
It only exists in an attempt to prevent linkrot. No new content will be added to this site, and links and images are liable to be broken. Check out begbie.com to find where I'm posting stuff these days.
Filed under 'wikipedia'
➠ November 8, 2009
A choice quote
I was re-reading Robin Sloan's short story Mr Penumbra's Twenty-Four-Hour Book Store on my iPhone last night, and came across this quote again, which I just love.
Since the iPhone Kindle app doesn't allow copy-and-paste (for who knows what sort of dastardly bootlegging would occur should that be permitted), I instead screen-captured the page, then trimmed it in Photoshop Mobile. Suck it, intellectual property overlords!
(Of course, since Robin's story is CC licensed, this is perfectly legal!)
➠ November 18, 2008
Dustin Pedroia
Let's take a moment to celebrate Dustin "Petey" Pedroia, who won the 2008 AL MVP award today. For two years in the major leagues, this list of achievements from his Wikipedia page is damned impressive.
Shout out too to Youk, for coming in third in MVP voting.
➠ July 29, 2008
BBC - Music
The first part of Auntie Beeb’s integration with MusicBrainz and Wikipedia is live. Every artist in MusicBrainz now has a page on bbc.co.uk, featuring radio playcount information where available. Very cool.
➠ April 26, 2008
Gin, Television, and Social Surplus
Clay Shirky’s talk from web2expo, which was by far the best of the keynotes. “Desperate Housewives essentially functioned as a kind of cognitive heat sink, dissipating thinking that might otherwise have built up and caused society to overheat.”
➠ March 26, 2008
Abyss & Apex : Wikihistory
“Take it easy on the kid, SilverFox316; everybody kills Hitler on their first trip. I did. It always gets fixed within a few minutes, what’s the harm?”
➠ March 23, 2008
wikinear.com, OAuth and Fire Eagle
Simon Willison knocks out a quick prototype showing Wikipedia articles related to your current location, a masterpiece of mashuppery.
➠ February 1, 2008
➠ December 20, 2007
➠ August 29, 2007
wikirage: What's hot now on wikipedia
Your guide to what’s currently getting the most edits on Wikipedia. Non-gay congressmen and videogames are popular, and it appears that The Moon’s entry is a prime target for vandalism and reversion.
➠ August 14, 2007
See Who's Editing Wikipedia - Diebold, the CIA, a Campaign
Tool to find astroturfing on Wikipedia. Sadly, the site that powered this article is overloaded and down currently.
➠ June 28, 2007
Greg Packer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wikipedia page for the guy at the front of the line for the iPhone in New York. He’s quite the line-sitter!
➠ May 15, 2007
➠ March 23, 2007
Unusual software bug - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“A Schroedinbug is a bug that manifests itself apparently only after the software is used in an unusual way or seemingly at the point in time that a programmer reading the source code notices that the program should never have worked in the first place, at which point the program stops working entirely until the mysteriously now non-functioning code is repaired.” I’ve coded a few of these in my time.
➠ January 24, 2007
➠ August 1, 2006
YouTube - Colbert Analyzes Wikipedia
Colbert defends Wikipedia as a great bastion of Truthiness — So long as a majority of people believe it, you can include it as “fact” in Wikipedia. Currently, about 20 elephant-related articles are locked down!
➠ July 26, 2006
➠ July 4, 2006
Bristol Stool Scale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
At the time of writing, this has 202 up-votes on Reddit. Hooray for democratized media.
➠ June 15, 2006
➠ May 1, 2006
Wired News: The Wikipedia FAQK
“Wikipedia is a new paradigm in human discourse. It’s a place where anyone with a browser can go, pick a subject that interests them, and without even logging in, start an argument.”
➠ April 14, 2006
Category:Exploding animals - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Best! Wikipedia category! Evah! Everything you need to know about Bat Bombs, Anti-tank Dogs and the Oregon Exploding Whale. Suck it, Brittanica!
➠ March 23, 2006
The MTA Song - Wikipedia
The kind of attention to trivia that Britannica can never hope to beat. A detailed analysis of whether 1980s transit policy in Boston would have allowed Charlie to deboard the train.
➠ February 28, 2006
➠ December 23, 2005
Wikipedia, academia and Seigenthaler
Great post by danah boyd about what Wikipedia is and isn’t good for — Make sure and read Jimmy Wales’s steak-knife metaphor. My equation: Full correct information > incomplete information > incorrect information > no information. Wikipedia is nowhere near perfect, but as a free resource it’s fucking amazing. And I’ve read it more than I ever touched the full Britannica collection my parents had when I was a kid.
➠ December 14, 2005
Internet encyclopaedias go head to head : Nature
Nature magazine performed a blind peer-review of several science topics in Wikipedia and Encyclopædia Britannica. Perhaps surprisingly, the number and type of errors in both were very similar, although the experts found the writing in Wikipedia to be considerably worse.
➠ November 5, 2005
Warnock's Dilemma - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Warnock’s Dilemma”, named for its progenitor Bryan Warnock, points out that a lack of response to a posting on a mailing list, Usenet newsgroup, or Web forum does not necessarily imply that no one is interested in the topic.
➠ October 15, 2005
➠ September 27, 2005
About This Site
This is an archive of groovmother.com, the old blog run by Rod Begbie — A Scottish geek who lives in San Francisco, CA.
I'm the co-founder of Sōsh, your handy-dandy guide for things to do in San Francisco this weekend.