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Belated. . .

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I’d make a horrible Dad. I know it. Know why? Got any clues? Well, in 2006 on 10-25 at 9:57 P.M. I posted my first article here on Brickblog. Why, I remember when this blog was still in diapers, I was excited to get 1 visit after posting oh so many articles. To date, I’m up to 4,694 visits since I installed Google Analytics (November 9, 2006) to track such things. Truly amazing. What’s even scarrier is when I analyze what kinds of articles bring people to my site, I see when you search for d40 vs d70 my site comes up #1 in google.

So lets think back to what brought this blog to life. . .

Oh thats right, those damn raccoons. They’re still around, in fact I had great fun, ehr, I mean I was left no other option, then to shoot one a couple weeks ago with my paintball gun while I had the electric fence repurposed on the garden for the summer.

But of course, I wouldn’t be here with such an audience if it wasn’t for my peeps. Those folks that both read my insane ramblings, and those that link to my blog. So since I can’t thank every single one of you by name, I’ll be certain to report out what WordPress tells me are the good folks linking to my site.

Thanks!


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Dueling blogs!

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Well, like I said. I’ve had too many occasions where I’ve had to point to a more professional blog in presentations, so I’ve gone and done it. Announcing M S McIntire! In a matter of hours the domain should be set and forwarding. I hope you all enjoy a little taste of professionalism. ;-) Meanwhile, I’ve installed an rss feed on my sidebar (==>) that will show the 2 latest posts over there in case any of the Brickblog loyalists feel slighted.

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Quality of information not dependent on user type says researchers.

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Short Note: I’ve started a more professional blog centering around Web 2.0, and Social networking. The need has come from my further involvement with guest lecturing on the topic and needing a profesional blog, in other words no gross pictures of mice in fryer grease, for lectures on blogging. . .

This post comes from that, it was interesting enough to me to feel like duplicating it.

Researchers at Dartmouth College “examined Wikipedia authors and the quality of Wikipedia content as measured by how long and how much of it persisted before being changed or corrected.” and found that the quality of the contributions was not negatively impacted by what they call “Good Samaritans,” or people who just made a one-time edit to correct a mistake.

The concept of a user editable encyclopedia is interesting to me. On one hand I find it extremely useful for looking for information about things that might not be covered in an ordinary encyclopedia. I’ve been known to look for information on things ranging in topic from RAID configurations to how many episodes of the Thundercats have ever been produced. 130 22min episodes for those of you keeping track at home. . .

On the other hand, one has to be careful to consider the source and it’s reliability when citing from, or taking knowledge from it. Lord forbid you happened to grab some info from a vandalized article prior to it’s correction.

I’m interested in hearing from the community what their experience with the online encyclopedia has been. What do you use it for? Do you use it as a primary source or a secondary source of information?

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