Ned Gulley’s Blog. Resident buzzwords: synthetic biology, ambient displays, swarm robotics, wise crowds.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 20th, 2009
Everybody has a smart phone these days, which means that everybody is constantly within hailing distance of Wikipedia. Wikipedia, Settler of Disputes, Furnisher of Backstory, and Destroyer of Conversations. You start with two people talking over lunch about who played the Riddler on Batman, and the next thing you know, one of them is nose-down, [...]
Posted in Wiki on Feb 25th, 2008
If you don’t read the comments here, you may have missed the wonderful thing that Mary Beth did last week. After a brief discussion here about how all knowledge is a web search away once you remember to formulate the question, she went out and researched a topic that had mystified her for many years: [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 15th, 2005
Jon Udell’s Heavy Metal Umlaut video is being passed around a lot these days, and with good reason. He took a quirky page out of Wikipedia, coupled it with some quick and dirty video manipulation from Camtasia, and made a compelling illustration of how the Wikipedia actually works. Here’s the current Wikipedia entry that initially [...]
