The Iraq War: A Wikipedia Historiography #iraqwar A set of books — every edit made to a single Wikipedia article on the Iraq War — during the five years between the article’s inception in December 2004 and November 2009. A total of 12,000 changes and almost 7,000 pages. Roughly the size of an encyclopedia. Flickr set here (via Simonsays)
Tagged: wikipedia. Toggle Comment Threads | Keyboard Shortcuts
-
seandodson
-
seandodson
Bookmarks for February 03
The 21st century has finally begun, says Bruce Sterling’s alter-ego, Bruno Argento
“After 1989 we enjoyed a strange interregnum where “history ended.” Everyone ran up a credit-card bill at the global supermarket. The adventure ended badly, in crisis. Still, let us be of good heart. In cold fact, a financial crisis is one of the kindest and mildest sorts of crisis a civilization can have. Compared to typical … catastrophes like wars, epidemics, earthquakes, volcanoes, endemic political collapse — a financial crisis is a problem for schoolchildren.”
+ Lord Foster to be stripped of his peerage.
Starchitect to lose out after moving to Switzerland. Maybe he’s the first victim of the new 21st century.+ Padraig Reidy: the Wikipedia editing debate highlights a retreat from web utopia.
+ Older net users give the younger generation a run for their money.
+ More from the London at Night series.
The Boston Globe continues its wonderful pictures of nocturnal London -
seandodson
Is everyone here? Good, then we’ll begin
NYU’s Clay Shirky was in London this week to promote his new book Here Come’s Everybody. I was lucky enough to interview him on Monday and my efforts published in today’s Technology Guardian.
Shirky talks about how the nature of organisation is evolving because of cheap access to communications technology. I also mention the launch of the Encyclopedia of Life, a thoroughly ambitious attempt to document the 1.8m species on the planet using a similar organistational structre to Wikipedia
Northern Light 
Reply