Commence beating the figurative dead horse. As I’ve written previously, (here, here and here) Wikipedia is suffering from a lack of female contributors (less than 1 in 10 editors are women, per the 2011 Wikimedia survey). This has the unfortunate consequence of compromising the overall quality and objectivity of its content, as illustrated in my post, How I Redefined …
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For more than two years, if you visited the Man page in Wikipedia, you would have found the following section outlining (7) characteristics of masculinity in general culture…
For more than two years, if you visited the Man page in Wikipedia, you would have found the following section outlining (7) characteristics of masculinity in general culture…
This week TechCrunch launched a new design for their site and Michael Arrington, the founder, posted links to the previous designs. Which gives us a unique chance to see the evolution of blog design from 2005 to 2011. Screenshots of all four changes are provided below and here are the big changes I noticed, what did …
In Wired’s July 2011 issue, it talks about how feedback loops are providing an exciting opportunity for changing human behavior, presenting the case of dynamic feedback displays, or driver feedback signs, where a speed limit is posted along with a radar sensor that reads your approaching speed and displays it on a digital sign. The …
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In Wired’s July 2011 issue, it talks about how feedback loops are providing an exciting opportunity for changing human behavior, presenting the case of dynamic feedback displays, or driver feedback signs, where a speed limit is posted along with a radar sensor that reads your approaching speed and displays it on a digital sign. The …
Continue reading “Sensors, Feedback Loops & The Humanity of Surveillance”
This weekend, something special happened. And I’m not referring to the fact that Steve and I got up before 9AM on a weekend. A group of women (and a couple men) came together voluntarily on their own time to teach and learn how to edit Wikipedia. For 4 hours, 20 of us sat in the kitchen …
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There’s an old proverb: Action is the proper fruit of knowledge – which is why 1X57 is offering a free workshop (drawing upon our days of running training for the Intellipedia Sabbatical) in DC next week for women and girls to learn how to edit and contribute to Wikipedia. Less than 13% of the Wikipedia editors …
Ever since the Wikimedia Foundation announced its goal to raise the share of female contributors to Wikipedia 25 percent by 2015, I’ve had it in my head to make sure my 11-year old niece is adding her voice to the collective knowledge of the world. It was with this goal of lighting the next generation’s …
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Hot off the presses! Fresh from the minds of the Washingtonian team and editor Garret Graff! The 2011 Washington DC Tech Titans: Quote: Our tech scene (DC) is the hottest it’s been since the dot-com glory days of the 1990s, with big investment by government in IT, surging green-energy programs, growing biotech research, and start-ups such as …