I retired from personal blogging in July 2008.
But you can find me over at http://blog.xero.com.
Russell gave a great example of how the community can add value.
RB is on the advisory board of Sound Archives NZ. He has requested a “do you know anything about this recording?” feature (I guess to a wiki type application) where people can jot down anything they know.
On Te Ara (the NZ online Encyclopedia) RB made the point that it is not user generated content - It is (funded) experts only.
Compare David Lange on Wikipedia and David Lange on TeAra (I’ll add link when TeAra comes back online).
Interesting.
Also good to see/hear Paul Reynolds in the flesh. He has such a voice on National radio.
I had a good chat to Mark Cubey over lunch. He’s producing Kim Hill on Saturday mornings at the moment. Mark is one of those guys I’ve always wanted to meet. He was writing at Salient when I was at Vic (20 years ago), was on Rip It Up and Loop.
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Interesting you should make this comment. I was just talking with my brother who is a DoC scientist recommending that he and other DoC staff look at adding content to Wikipedia in their own time instead of trying to get it on TeAra or the DoC site. Wikipedia always seems to make the top five links in a Google search.
Not to mention the potentially self funding web ventures that a Govt. dept. such as DoC could do based on their access to exciting raw material.
I thought the government’s Digital Content Strategy was hugely uninspiring and I’m not surprised to see that they’ve decided to close the door to the very stuff that drives the “intarweb” currently - user-generated material.
Te Ara is quite frankly boring and useless, especially when compared to Wikipedia (which has its flaws, but since it’s a living site, they are getting sorted out). Wouldn’t be surprised if Te Ara gets one in the neck after the next election…
me too. The DCS is sort of like WWW circa 1995, but the web pages are prettier…. I guess they have to try and catch up on all the stuff that should have been digitised by e-Govt a decade ago.
I’m reading a Strategic Framework for Public Libraries thru to 2010 (or something like that). Its a Policy analysts dream. Lots of case studies, colours, photos, etc. But reeks of insecurity. It describes an environment which is highly top down
writer-> publisher -> bookshop/library -> borrower.
I wonder when libraries will go peer to peer and be a local server or branch of You Tube ? When does the content flow become bi-directional ?
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