Reuters reports that US Intelligence is using wikis for knowledge sharing. “The office of U.S. intelligence czar John Negroponte announced Intellipedia, which allows intelligence analysts and other officials to collaboratively add and edit content on the government’s classified Intelink Web.” It sounds like a spook version of Wikipedia.
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Dave Weinberger in Paris
February 28th, 2006 — MarkTo Paris yesterday to hear the great David Weinberger, by the special invitation of Guillaume du Gardier, now with Edelman.
David Weinberger was one of the editors of the Cluetrain Manifesto and thus has a legitimate claim to be at the heart of the philosophical shift that underlies the rise of consumer-generated media, and the [...]
Wikipedia: where content beats spam
February 21st, 2006 — MarkHow can relevant content beat out spam? Sunir Shah of Socialtext explains why Wikis, and in particular Wikipedia gets such a powerful ranking on Google. He suggests that it is to do with the highly relevant internal linking of the Wikipedia site, combined with a vast number of comparatively low value links. [...]
Wiki Wednesday in London
September 8th, 2005 — MarkRoss Mayfield from Social Text organised London’s inaugural Wiki Wednesday last night.
It was a chance for enterprises using Wikis and specialists in blogging and corporate communication internal and external to get together over some cold drinks. Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein were the enlightened hosts. Ross Mayfield talked about how Social [...]