NEW RESOURCES There’s a new Twitter bot for tracking edits made to Wikipedia. This one’s watching the NYPD. “The account was created Friday morning, after a Capital New York report detailed extensive […]
RPI, Dropbox, Mapping, More: Sunday Afternoon Buzz, March 2, 2014
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has digitized its newspaper archives. “Issues of The Poly from 1885 to 1976 can be searched online by anyone. An earlier iteration of The Poly that only lasted for […]
Vermont, DMOZ, Wikipedia, More: Tuesday Buzz, February 4, 2014
Thanks to PIBuzz for the pointer to VTDigger’s announcement that it has launched a searchable campaign finance database. “The database features complete lists of donations to candidates for Vermont House, Vermont Senate […]
Wikipedia Trying a Different Editing Approach
If you don’t use Wikipedia much, you might think that it’s kept “open” all the time, and that any page may be edited at any time by any person. That’s not correct. […]
Answers.com Pushes Answers to Twitter
Answers.com, which you might remember from WikiAnswers or ReferenceAnswers, announced last Wednesday a new alpha feature called “Hoopoe,” which ties in with Twitter. Hoopoe’s Twitter account is at http://twitter.com/answersdotcom. Here’s how it […]
