Here is a story about a brand of toothpaste and Wikipedia, and how the brand of toothpaste won. It is a salutary lesson, not for the toothpaste, but for Wikipedia – except I don’t imagine anyone from Wikipedia has noticed.
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Years ago I worked at Dorling Kindersley producing illustrated four-colour books – that is to say, with pictures on every page, and the text often wrapped around the pictures. Whatever the subject, cookery, health and wellbeing, or DIY, Dorling Kindersley’s working …
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Well, there are plenty of books out there that imply you can. I selected two of the more widely available titles and compared them:
Millington, R., 2012. Buzzing communities: how to build bigger, better, and more active online communities. FeverBee.
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The remarkable (and almost accidental) nature of this book was revealed very clearly quite by chance, in David Thomson’s obituary of the publisher Tom Rosenthal, who died in January 2004. In it he described the genesis of the Biographical Dictionary of …
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The terms “XML workflow” and “XML first” are used so frequently that it is as if the simple repetition of the terms provides sufficient proof that what is claimed to be happening is actually taking place. Many workflows that claim to …
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AccountingWEB has been running for some 15 years, which makes it one of the longest-established communities on the Web. I’m not even sure there was a Web 15 years ago. And the slick website oozes confidence. Simply reading the numbers of …
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A site entitled PatientsLikeMe states its goal very clearly – this is a site for sufferers to share experiences and views, and with 240,000 registered users (or 220,000, the site lists two different totals) it clearly meets a need. How does …
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There can never have been a more appropriate name for a website. Ravelry can refer not only to the practice of knitting (of which this site must be the definitive community) but also to the astonishingly intricate structure of the site. …