Erik and I just released a very important blog post about ads on Wikipedia.
In short, if you’re seeing ads… your computer is probably infected with malware.
Read it on the Wikimedia blog.
Philippe Beaudette
Ramblings, thoughts, and other word-ings.Telling, eh?
The most read books ever
…I *did* send this card to my mother, the English teacher.
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Joost de Valk, over at yoast.com put together a super sweet info graphic about WordPress.
Y’all enjoy.
The folks over at feverbee.com are not always writers with whom I agree – but I don’t fault them for consistency. And sometimes, I flat-out agree with them.
I totally agree with their ideas for using data to prove or disprove community theories. I find it fascinating to consider where people “lurk”. I lurk, for instance, at FlyerTalk – because it’s a hard community to join with a high barrier to entry (socially, not technically… though it ain’t easy in that way either). But I jumped into Wikipedia, feet first.
Read their essay about community myths. It’s fascinating.
Parents … you know, the ones with the bumper sticker talking about their kid being an honor student at Marla Maples’ school of dance, or whatever?… they annoy me. But I get it.
Today, I’m feeling it a little bit, because Oliver is all growed up. Yup. He wrote something that I agree with. Now, don’t get me wrong – I want to strangle him a little most days (love ya, mean it, ollie!) but damn, when he gets it right, he gets it right.
Wikipedians, please read his post about user signatures.
Everyone else, you really don’t care. Trust me, you don’t.
There’s no question… I’ve doubted conventional wisdom. I thought the hype about infographics might just have been hype.
But then, I saw this one. I’m a believer.
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David Gerard has written an interesting commentary on the use of Wikipedia by PR agencies. I commend it to you, and encourage you to pass it along to anyone else that might be interested.
The San Jose Mercury News has some beautiful and dramatic photos in this story.
Here’s my favorite:
San Francisco Bay with MSC Fabiola - Copyright © 2012 San Jose Mercury News