According to an Associated Press article that appeared in the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday, January 24, 2007, Microsoft acknowledged that it had approached a...
In a considered response to my previous blog post entitled This Wikipedia Article Brought to You by Microsoft , comes now a blog post by Geoffrey Burling : "....
Following a trail of bread crumbs on the blogosphere that was created by my recent exchange of thoughts with Wikipedian Geoffrey Burling led me from Burling's...
In a previous XODP Blog post , I stated my belief that whatever creative and progressive genius ODP/dMOZ once had has been inherited by Wikipedia. Following up...
Although it's hardly breaking news, I recently discovered that Wikipedia developer Brion Vibber has reinstated nofollow attributes for outbound links on...
A post on John Battelle's Searchblog points to an article on VentureBeat , the latter being journalist Matt Marshall's recently launched online publication...
While following up on a previous XODP Blog post that covered Powerset's attempts to outdo Google by using Natural Language Processing (NLP), I discovered a...
In a recent XODP Blog post , I extolled the virtues of WordNet and declared that it was one of the best kept secrets when it comes to Natural Language...
Very curious posts on Rick Skrenta's blog: DMOZ had 9 lives. Used up yet? http://www.skrenta.com/2006/12/dmoz_had_9_lives_used_up_yet.html...
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While I occasionally mention ODP/dMOZ in a historical context, particularly so in reference to Wikipedia inheriting whatever creative genius ODP once had , I...
While following up on a previous XODP Blog post narrating the death and resurrection of ODP , I found a link in a post on the Text Technologies blog pointing...
I intended my article as a start to the conversation, I'm glad it has done so :) When writing my article, I was thinking about an ideal DMOZ, which worked and...
Although I've written about what the Semantic Web is previously, I've always felt that there should be a simpler way to explain it. And while exploring the...
David, if you think this is too 'out there' then please chop it. It's good brain fodder I thought.... Many of you who have On-Star subscriptions and older...
Following up on some recent XODP Blog posts about Wikipedia, I noticed that it has become somewhat fashionable to predict Wikipedia's imminent demise, the most...
In a previous XODP Blog post , I commented on the fact that Powerset had succeeded where Google had failed in wooing natural language processing (NLP) guru...
While exploring the blogosphere for commentary about Wikipedia, my attention was drawn to a post by Larry Sanger on the Citizendium Blog : ". . . Wikipedia's...
Following a comment by one Mike on the XODP Blog eventually took me to said Mike's Modern Dragons Blog, which has a very lengthy post about Citizendium . And...
Hey NetEsq (that's you, right?), What argument or evidence can you offer to support this silly claim that I wish to establish "centralized content control"? Is...
While there's still no trackback on the Citizendium Blog for my previous XODP Blog post entitled Larry Sanger Gets It Totally Wrong , Larry has condescended to...
Hello, Mike: My comments about your blog were limited to your one rather lengthy post about Citizendium , and I already said what I had to say about it in my...
David, If you have something to say about my blog, say it, or cut the insinuations. Myself, I enjoyed your back catalogue of posts and links re: Wikipedia and...
Hi David, Thanks for the clarification. I think, for whatever reason, we're both coming at this 'hackles raised'. I'll try to give you the benefit of the doubt...
Reasonable minds may differ as to whether my response to Larry Sanger was a personal attack or a proportional response to Larry's self-righteous posturing. I...
Re: my blog post, that's quite constructive. And thanks for the nice remarks. Re: Citizendium, I'm sure we agree on some things and disagree on others (nothing...
Stacy Schiff of The New Yorker wrote an article about Wikipedia that was first published online in July of 2006 . One of Schiff's sources was a pseudonymous...
Once exposed, Essjay simply piled lie on lie. He invented the PhD to big himself up, not because of stalkers. His claims to receive ten death threats a week...
In my original blog post, I stated that Daniel Brandt had broken the story about Essjay quite some time ago and pointed to a URL on Brandt's Wikipedia Watch...