Comments on: Sarah Palin, Crowdsourced

By: bowerbird

bowerbird — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:48:41 +0000

this would perhaps be more clear (albeit less typographic)
if you were to screenshot the successive _change_ pages…

-bowerbird

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Sun, 07 Sep 2008 02:28:17 +0000

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Idle Thoughts on Intellectual Assembly Lines « Hoosierati — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:32:55 +0000

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By: Dan Cohen

Dan Cohen — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:22:01 +0000

Amanda & Trey: Let's try this: a PDF of the changes. Hope that helps.

By: Amanda French

Amanda French — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:19:37 +0000

I can’t see any graphic details in my browser — image not big enough. I tried it in FF and Safari on my Mac. Do I have to download it & zoom in, or can you post a larger resolution?

I too am a fan of Jon Udell’s Heavy Metal Umlaut video. I’ve used it in teaching.

By: Trey

Trey — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:08:59 +0000

Dan,

Very interesting. Any chance we can get better screen snaps of the changes from you?

-Trey

By: Dan Cohen

Dan Cohen — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:10:32 +0000

Thanks, Andrew. That's a great screencast on Wikipedia (I covered it last year).

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:04:26 +0000

You might be interested in the following (somewhat old) screencast about the evolution of the entry for the “Heavy Metal Umlaut” in wikipedia.

http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2005/01/22.html

(Note there’s some naughty language in there.)