My Clips- Cause of plane crash west of Bozeman under investigation, pilot pronounced dead at scene August 31, 2010
- The man who wanted train horns August 16, 2010
- Money well spent? August 15, 2010
- Local telecom company gets $64 million to bring high-speed Internet to rural Gallatin County August 5, 2010
- Montana Opticom receives $64 million in stimulus money for rural broadband August 4, 2010
- AT&T to replace Alltel in Montana within a year June 25, 2010
- Bozeman twin looks to scale namesake peak: K2 June 21, 2010
- High water claims Amsterdam Road bridge June 12, 2010
- Trio of veteran Belgrade teachers retiring June 7, 2010
- MSU robot digger wins NASA competition May 29, 2010
Tag Archives: collaboration
Trolling Knol
There’s one thing I’ve noticed so far after playing with Google’s Knol, the company’s so-called Wikipedia killer. Unlike Wikipedia, Knol doesn’t specify whether it wants us to write in an encyclopedic style. You can already see the difference between articles sampled at random. The article on lung cancer is written like an encyclopedia entry, a long [...]
Google launches Wikipedia competitor Knol
Google today launched its publicly editable encyclopedia Knol. On its blog, Google outlined its philosophy for its new online encyclopedia: The web contains vast amounts of information, but not everything worth knowing is on the web. An enormous amount of information resides in people’s heads: millions of people know useful things and billions more could [...]
Wikipedia may soon be more useful for students
The Chronicle of Higher Education reported today that Wikipedia’s staff will soon decide whether to add a feature that would make the publicly-editable encyclopedia more useful to students and scholars. The new feature would allow versions of the encyclopedia’s articles to be frozen so that experts could the verify the information contained on them. The [...]
Wikipedia: Will There be a Curve?
The Chronicle of Higher Education reported today on a professor at the University of Washington asked her class of 34 students to submit their graded, revised papers to the Wikipedia at the end of the term and was surprised to find how harshly some of those papers were received by the online community. Prof. Martha [...]
Michael Becker has been blogging about academia, digital culture and journalism since 2005. He is the Web editor of the
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