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According to TechCrunch, Wikipedia has garnered its 10 millionth article which is a biography of Nicholas Hilliard, a 16th century painter. The Wikipedia has entries written in 250 different languages, with English as the most popular, accounting for 2.3 million articles.
Britain’s Telegraph has put together a 101 most useful websites list suggesting helpful online destinations in the realms of technology, entertainment, advice and information, house and home, social, shopping, and travel. Here are their top ten:
New York Times technology columnist, David Pogue asks; Are You Taking Advantage of Web 2.0? He talks about dealing with the well-placed fears about using these social software tools by embracing moderation.
“Yes, you’ll have to moderate this stuff. Yes, it means spending money with no immediately visible return on investment. Yes, it’s more work for everyone.
But you’ll gain trust, goodwill and positive attention. You’ll put a human face on your company. And you’ll learn stuff about your customers that you wouldn’t have discovered any other way.”
Facebook has added a new feature which suggest possible friends for you who are connected to at least four of the same people you are. Dan Farber at C|Net News reports on the new service in his Facebook’s goes hyper-viral with ‘People You May Know’.
Judith Tabron at the Chronicle of Higher Education talks about technology and its place in learning environments in her How to Find What Clicks in the Classroom.
“Our students live online. They fall in love, they shop, they order pizza on the Web. Their iPods, TV’s, and Xboxes are sophisticated technologies. They instant-message their blogs from their cellphones, and they can’t picture college having a place in any of this, because we haven’t shown them that it can.
It will be a dismal future if the only thing our graduates cannot do online is learn.”
Smashing Magazine has created a series of articles spotlighting free, first-class themes for WordPress blogs. Bloggers who use this platform will want to head over and take a look as they present screenshots for each theme.
Trent Batson, Ph.D. at Campus Technology discusses the types of Web 2.0 collaborative technologies his research team employed throughout the life cycle of their project in Research Collaboration in the Ephemera of Web 2.0.
“What technology do researchers use at different phases of the project? With the new options available now and, it seems, each month, we consider all the possibilities. Part of research now is not just the research, but keeping abreast of new collaboration technologies. We all need to be ethnographers.”
ReadWriteWeb tackles different approaches to getting email under control in their Five Methodologies to Deal with Email Overload. They cover five techniques which are currently practiced and compare how to implement each of them:
The NYPL offers gaming sessions at 18 of their Bronx, Manhattan and Staten Island branch libraries, and owns 2,500 copies of 92 different games available for loan to gamers. The New York Times covers their “Game On @ the Library!” initiative in Taking Play Seriously at the Public Library With Young Video Gamers.
“What we’re seeing is that in addition to simply helping bring kids into the library in the first place, games are having a broader effect on players, and they have the potential to be a great teaching tool,” Mr. Martin said. “If a kid takes a test and fails, that’s it. But in a game, if you fail you get to take what you’ve learned and try again.”
If you’re at all interested in social media such as social networks, blogs, wikis, podcasts, microblogs, etc., you’ll want to check Mashable’s latest article linking to 15 Free Social Media White Papers and Ebooks. Here are some of the titles:
Zigmas Bigelis creates a mega-list of 80 tools and applications sure to be of interest to librarians and other book lovers. I knew quite a few of these, but was pleased to find some that were new to me such as Paperback Swap and Free Tech Books. The list is categorized into the following sections:
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