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On the reliability of Wikipedia
A reporter at the USC college newspaper, the Daily Trojan, reached out to ask my opinion about a recent story in the Chronicle of Higher Education that showed that somebody with a USC IP address was changing the Wikipedia entry about the school. I found myself spending a few minutes writing out an email [...]
Now Tracking: “Quarterlife”
On Wednesday, Daily Variety reported the following:
Ed Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz are undertaking an ambitious new-media project that will see them revive onetime ABC pilot “Quarterlife” and distribute it via MySpace, as well as create their own social-networking site.
Duo will produce and variously write and direct episodes of the show, which centers on twentysomethings grappling [...]
More on “iCarly”…
Back in mid-July, a short L.A. Times item about Nickelodeon’s new iCarly series caught my eye.
Today, USA Today has a substantial article about the show.
One new tidbit of information is that the website will have longer versions of the user-submitted video than what air on TeenNICK, which brings to my mind some questions of [...]
Doonesbury takes on Facebook!
I’m so happy to see that Garry Trudeau is taking on my new bad habit: Facebook.
Check out today’s strip.
Can’t. Stop. Checking. Facebook…
Well, OK, actually I CAN stop checking–at least, I can anytime I want to, I know I can… why do you doubt me?–but I think my circle of online Facebook friends finally hit some kind of critical mass because earlier today I found myself adding and checking and sending messages obsessively.
I’ve been on LinkedIn and [...]
