http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xodp/ A Think Tank and Free Speech Forum. Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:08:26 GMT Internet Esquire http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xodp/message/2529 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xodp/message/2529 For reasons that defy rational explanation, the powers that be at Wikia dispute the claim that Wikia is the for-profit counterpart of the non-profit Wikimedia Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:51:12 GMT Internet Esquire http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xodp/message/2528 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xodp/message/2528 While Googling my byline a month or so ago to keep current on any recent gossip about me, I stumbled upon a thread at Digital Point discussing the merits (or Mon, 01 Oct 2007 04:09:56 GMT Vasiliy Kiryanov http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xodp/message/2527 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xodp/message/2527 Vasiliy Kiryanov has left a new comment on your post "The Waning Relevance of Search Engines": I like your article. The most I like point about search function Mon, 09 Jul 2007 03:18:21 GMT Anonymous http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xodp/message/2526 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xodp/message/2526 Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "ODP/dMOZ - In Memoriam, Once Again": June 2007. Dmoz has been offline for 48 hours. It's about time the dinosaur Fri, 15 Jun 2007 21:33:53 GMT Anonymous http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xodp/message/2525 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xodp/message/2525 Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "A Post Mortem on Zeal": This is over a year later and the ODP has reached a new low in irrational and cruel Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:59:05 GMT rob_chi80 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xodp/message/2524 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xodp/message/2524 Hi, I recently joined this group, because I thought it would be a good forum to solicit some feedback regarding a project I founded. As former ODP editors, I'm Thu, 12 Apr 2007 22:03:28 GMT Charleskou http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xodp/message/2523 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xodp/message/2523 "The Terror Timeline" makes a strong case for Pakistani(ISI) involvement in 9/11. The Saudis clearly had foreknowledge of the attacks if not a supporting role. Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:14:22 GMT Gregory Kohs http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xodp/message/2522 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xodp/message/2522 This scandal seems to be having an adverse effect on the daily financial donations to the Wikimedia Foundation: http://www.centiare.com/Wikipedia_scandals Mon, 19 Mar 2007 08:04:48 GMT Internet Esquire http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xodp/message/2521 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xodp/message/2521 The term "Web 2.0" was coined sometime in 2004 by Dale Dougherty of O'Reilly Media. Far from a new technical standard, Web 2.0 began as a marketing gimmick for Wed, 14 Mar 2007 21:14:21 GMT Anonymous http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xodp/message/2520 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xodp/message/2520 From 10 things you did not know about Wikipedia : 6. We don't want you to trust us. Good Wikipedia articles are accompanied by liberal references and Sun, 11 Mar 2007 07:29:18 GMT Internet Esquire http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xodp/message/2519 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xodp/message/2519 I don't necessarily put fault with the fact checker. I think that it is natural to expect a web site to maintain the accuracy of the data that is presented in Sat, 10 Mar 2007 23:36:37 GMT Internet Esquire http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xodp/message/2518 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xodp/message/2518 When the Web was young -- i.e., before the advent of Yahoo! and Google -- USENET [sic] was the primary medium for fielding informational queries on the Sat, 10 Mar 2007 16:54:12 GMT Internet Esquire http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xodp/message/2517 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xodp/message/2517 According to Brian Bergstein of the Associated Press: "Following revelations that a high-ranking member of Wikipedia's bureaucracy used his cloak of Fri, 09 Mar 2007 17:30:27 GMT Internet Esquire http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xodp/message/2516 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xodp/message/2516 The Digg website was launched just over two years ago on December 5th, 2004, and now boasts having some one million users. For those of you who have never Thu, 08 Mar 2007 22:06:53 GMT Pawlina http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xodp/message/2515 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xodp/message/2515 You make a good point in contrasting the perceived personal risk of citing the New Yorker vs Wikipedia. However, it appears Wikipedia is trying to establish a