I was lucky enough to be included in a podcast set up by Justin Kistner with Ward Cunningham and Peter Kaminski earlier this week regarding the Universal Edit Button.
Rick Turoczy just posted it over at his weblog Silicon Florist, with added commentary. Check out the 20 minute podcast!
From: Genexbs.com Featured at AboutUs.org
What is AboutUs.org? AboutUs.org is a community portal, managed and built by community itself. It’s a unique way to build information on web; it’s the Wiki way.
TechVibes.com released their Portland Start-up Index - February 2008, re-posted by OregonStartups.com (Portland Startups Ranked by Web Traffic and SiliconFlorist.com [1] . There’s some really cool stuff here. Here are the top 10:
AboutUs CTO, Ward Cunningham, authored several posts for the Wikipedia fundraising blog. This is one that didn’t run, but is still good advice.
We buy a computer and we expect it to change the way we live. Sometimes we know exactly how that change will happen. But more often we make the purchase with only a vague notion that life will be better with the new machine. We expect something good and the machine delivers.
The computer industry exists because computers, the network, and the people who use them have delivered on a promise that we only vaguely understood as we paid the bills. Did we know there would be a Wikipedia? Probably not. Still, there it is. Enjoy.
Enjoy, but understand that we are not done paying. I ask you to give to Wikimedia because this investment is necessary and will be even more positively leveraged than your hardware purchase. Your machine sits before you ready to transform your contribution into good in ways that neither you nor I can fully predict. I say this with all the confidence I had when I chose to devote my life to computing. I remain excited by our possibilities. I hope you are too.
Ward Cunningham invented the Wiki style of collaboration in 1995. He has been a member of the Wikimedia Foundation Advisory Board since its founding. Ward’s previous request, Contribute in honor of teachers. This post is a personal opinion, and does not represent an official statement from the Wikimedia Foundation or AboutUs, Inc.
contributor: Ward Cunningham
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