Archive for the ‘wiki’ Category

Blogging Burma

Sunday, September 30th, 2007

[Photo by Marxpix] Like the Asian Tsunami (December 29, 2004),the The London Bombings (July 2005) and Hurricane Katrina's Aftermath (September 2005), information about the current demonstrations and atrocities happening in Burma are flowing through user-generated channels as much (indeed, often more so than) through the traditional mainstream media. There is ...

Australian Politicians … editing Wikipedia and spending big on redundant Internet filters

Friday, August 24th, 2007

(I'm back in Perth, and ...) All over the world the WikiScanner has been uncovering interesting trails and tails of previously unnamed Wikipedia editors.  PerthNow quickly jumped on the bandwagon and discovered the the Office of Australia's Prime Minister has been busy: The Prime Minister's staff has been editing ...

Searching Blogs Vs Wikis - Australians Prefer Wiki (The World Prefers Blog)

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

I was playing with Google Trends and their comparison function and noticed that you can now limit searches to regions (ie just Australia, for example). I was playing around looking at the comparative popularity of 'blog' versus 'wiki' and found something interesting: cumulatively, global searchers are still typing in ...