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Submission + - Make Room for Experts in Web 2.0

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on Sunday December 17, 2006 @11:20PM

Raindance writes: "Larry Sanger, co-founder of Wikipedia, writes on why Web 2.0 developers should consider making special roles for experts, how aggregation without regard to expertise simply doesn't work for many sorts of collaborative decisions, and answers some common objections. FTA: "If you want to make sure you're doing a good job with some knowledge project, it's a good idea to let people who have the relevant knowledge make some decisions ... Personally, as I said, I think this is totally obvious.""

Submission + - Lessig's Code v2 released

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on Saturday December 16, 2006 @05:57PM

Raindance writes: " Lawrence Lessig has announced the availability of his new book for download. FTA: "Code v2 is officially launched today. Some may remember Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, published in 1999. Code v2 is a revision to that book — not so much a new book, as a translation of (in Internet time) a very old book. Part of the update was done on a Wiki. The Wiki was governed by a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license. So too is Code v2. Thus, at http://codev2.cc, you can download the book. Soon, you can update it further (we're still moving it into a new wiki). You can also learn a bit more about the history of the book, and aim of the revision. And finally, there are links to buy the book — more cheaply than you likely can print it yourself." All proceeds go to Creative Commons."

Submission + - SPAM: Do Experts Belong in Web 2.0?

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on Wednesday November 01, 2006 @04:56AM

Raindance writes: "Larry Sanger, giving the keynote to SDForum, suggested a small-but-important alteration to the formula for building a Web 2.0 site: tap the wisdom of crowds, but also go out of your way to encourage and use contributions from experts. From the keynote: "Most Web 2.0 projects don't make any special role for experts. But I think they could involve experts, and they would benefit from involving experts so in many cases. ... If you want to make sure you're doing a good job with some knowledge project, it's a good idea to let people who have the relevant knowledge make [certain] decisions.""

Submission + - A Look Inside Citizendium

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on Thursday October 12, 2006 @04:16PM

Raindance writes: "I've posted an in-depth look at Citizendium, Larry Sanger's new project and Wikipedia's new competitor. In a nutshell, Citizendium isn't just about building a better encyclopedia (though that is their goal)- it's also a pilot project for a new model of expert-guided radical collaboration with implications for things from open peer review to genome wikis. If you'd like to help out, they need both volunteers and donations.

note for editors: Sanger has said of my post, "This is probably the best thing yet written about Citizendium that I've seen. I'm extremely impressed by the clear thinking and research that went into it.""

Submission + - Google on Power Supplies

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on Tuesday September 26, 2006 @02:52PM

Raindance writes: "The New York Times reports that Google is calling "for a shift from multivoltage power supplies to a single 12-volt standard. Although voltage conversion would still take place on the PC motherboard, the simpler design of the new power supply would make it easier to achieve higher overall efficiencies ... The Google white paper argues that the opportunity for power savings is immense — by deploying the new power supplies in 100 million desktop PC's running eight hours a day, it will be possible to save 40 billion kilowatt-hours over three years, or more than $5 billion at California's energy rates." This may have something to do with the electricity bill for Google's estimated 450,000 servers."

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