Filed under: Video
The Squadcast - Episode #3
This week's episode features music by Binärpilot.
Jimmy Wales posts
This week's episode features music by Binärpilot.
Filed under: Internet, News, Blogging, Web services, Social Software
Blogging code of conduct - or anything goes?
As a blogger, you have to have teflon skin when you lay your words down and push the publish button. You know at any moment the comments posted can range from "great piece" to "you are a dimbulb" to the worst ever - death threats. Who can say what makes some in the blogosphere as mean, if not meaner, as the high school girls named Heather in the movie, Heathers? In any event, the present state has become so riotous that a call for blogging guidelines is gaining some traction.Masters of the Internet, Tim O'Reilly, (radar.o'reilly.com) and Jimmy Wales, of Wikipedia fame, have both taken up the cause proposing civility standards in the online community. As a starting point for discussion, they recommend banning anonymous comments left by visitors, as well as the ability to delete threatening or libelous comments without being judged a censor. My personal favorite is not to say anything online that you wouldn't say in person. They also discuss the possibility of having different codes of conduct bloggers could adhere to with corresponding seals of approval represented by different logos which in turn, would be displayed on the blogger's page.
What do you think? Should the online community work to self police towards a civil discourse, or should anything goes prevail?
[via NYtimes.com]
Filed under: Web services
Amazon buys a chunk of Wikia
VentureBeat is reporting that Amazon has bought a major stake in wiki company Wikia. Like many companies, Wikia allows people to create wikis for their interests or organizations. The company stands out in many people's minds because it's the brainchild of Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. Part of the purchase includes more than $2 million for the purchase of ArmchairGM, a somewhat successful sports wiki whose founders Dan Lewis, Aaron Wright, David Pean, and Rob Lefkowitz will join Wikia as full-time employees. ArmchairGM's user-generated news and voting technologies will be brought to other Wikia wikis and Wiki is considering other acquisitions as well. How Wikia fits in with Amazon's other interests like its web services isn't yet clear.
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
