The Social Epistemology of Wikipedia

Notes from a special issue of Episteme on the epistemology of mass collaboration. In the set of articles reviewed, philosophers consider Wikipedia from the perspective of theories of testimony and truth.

Once upon a life: Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson, talking about opening her own shop instead of selling out to a coffee chain:
“The coffee offer forced me to focus on what I would really like to happen, instead of either doing nothing or passively accepting what someone else would like to happen”

ISKO event – digital cultural heritage

Some notes from a set of talks at UCL on 9th June.

Asking the audience

Bites from the 2006 book “Infotopia” by Cass Sunstein on the aggregation of knowledge

information systems research: describe, critique or design?

At what level does IS research work best? This post argues for more direct involvement in design from the research community.
(image flickr/talios)

Book Review: Metadata and Semantics

A review of the proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research, held in Corfu in October 2007

(Image:flickr:dullhunk)

Online Information 2009 – A Twitter Timeline

An interactive timeline of tweets from Onine Information 2009

The Bristol Community Twitterati

An analysis of the Bristol “twolar system”..

Social epistemology as a foundation for information services

An article arguing for social epistemology as a foundation and theoretical framework for information science.

ICTD2009: Selected Cuts

Some personal highlights and observations from the Information and Communication Technologies for Development conference in Doha, Qatar, 17-19th April