Kraut, R. E. & Resnick, P. (Under contract). Evidence-based social design: Mining the social sciences to build online communities. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
"This article is a very nasty piece of work. Nastiness breathes from the commas and drips like Spanish moss from Wolf's fine sentences. Everything in the piece is contrived to promote disapproval rather than understanding. This hatchet job could be a textbook for a course in persuasive writing: every word, every detail has been chosen for its connotations of folly, decay, and despair rather than its accuracy or appropriateness.
The inaccuracies begin in the first sentence (there is no Marin Boulevard in Sausalito), but I will not chronicle them here; a partial list can be found at http://xanadu.net/wolfsbane"
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.09/rants.html
on Peter Flynn, who created the first broken link
Peter Flynn began the workshop with a talk entitled Now You See It ... Now You Don't [2]. Peter, who works in the Computer Centre at University College Cork (UCC) was Ireland's first Webmaster (and, incidentally, the person who was responsible for the world's first broken link, back in 1991!)
To mark the 40th anniversary of the Internet, DARPA has announced the DARPA Network Challenge, a competition that will explore the roles the Internet and social networking play in the timely communication, wide-area team-building, and urgent mobilization required to solve broad-scope, time-critical problems.
The challenge is to be the first to submit the locations of 10 moored, 8-foot, red, weather balloons at 10 fixed locations in the continental United States. The balloons will be in readily accessible locations and visible from nearby roads.
Nicht nur der Brockhaus wurde ein Opfer des Medienumbruchs und von Wikipedia. Auch Microsofts Encarta hat nach langem Kampf aufgegeben und wird im Sommer aus den CD-ROM-Regalen verschwinden. Ihre Webseiten sperren im Laufe des Jahres zu.
Citation: “Characterizing Individual Communication Patterns” by R. Dean Malmgren, Jake M. Hofman, Luís A. N. Amaral, and Duncan J. Watts. arXiv:0905.0106v1