Updates
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50 Parties Club
I was actually about to take a nap before the final session of Wikimania when Jimmy Wales grabbed me and asked if I’d help him with his speech to close the incredible Wikimania 2007…
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‘Dictionaries are not clubs that only good words can get in to’
What a cool, chic chick. I’m in a Wikimedia Foundation Advisory Board retreat in Taipei and have met Erin who is so incredibly clever, funny and – most importantly – loves dresses. Erin calls…
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Open letter to Carte Blanche
I anticipated the Carte Blanche story about Wikipedia with great interest, but was highly disappointed when the program was finally shown on Sunday evening. Here was a wonderful opportunity to show how the Wikipedia…
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A tale of two competitions
Over the past few months we’ve seen good and bad ways of running competitions for user-generated content on the South African Internet. Exhibit A: Apple South Africa’s ‘GetPodcasting‘ Competition. In March, some eagle-eyed bloggers…
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