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LOL! Dave Winer on DMOZ vs. Wikipedia DMOZ has a bad rep for having editors with conflicts of interest. And it’s exclusive, unlike Wikipedia which at least has battles (never thought I’d say that) of people with conflicts, DMOZ doesn’t even have dissent among conflicted people, only one point of view exists, because there’s only…

Stowe Boyd : The Individual Is The New Group — Part 1 which kind of reminds me of all those ideas about PersonalKnowledgeManagement that were floating around last year.

Mitch Kapor : Wikipedia is the next big thing. Ross Mayfield has more details

WikiMatrix / Wiki Feature Comparison – Compare them all

Quick comment I made about personal timeliness vs. personal individuality Blogger 100% right. At some point we realize that some of our information consumption has to be a “minority game”. The winners will be those who know things that other people *don’t*. That’s what makes you valuable to other people. Being an expert in the…

This isn’t a problem. It’s the solution. Politicians who try to spin their wikipedia entry are getting named and shamed.

Latest news copied from the ShowStoppers page I’m still thinking, more and more seriously, about rewriting at least the wiki-to-html engine in Python. I’m also seriously thinking that the next release will actually be a complementary “web-server” edition, which allows you to edit pages via a browser (over the web) rather than through the VB…

The Fishbowl: In Defense of Wiki Markup

David Weinberger has an excellent piece on wikipedia. JOHO – December 29, 2005

OK, some more thinking out-loud about possible futures for SdiDesk in light of that TurboGears demo. Nothing is fixed. Particularly not SdiDesk. This is all speculative. What is SdiDesk? Idea? A prototype? A useful tool? A code-base? A finger-post pointing out the direction I’d like to see individualistic knowledge tools evolve? All of the above.…