Monthly Archives: October 2009

Growth of Wikipedia declines

So what? Is this a surprising fact? I don’t think so. In this TIME article Farhad Manjoo points out, that “But early in 2007, something strange happened: Wikipedia’s growth line flattened. People suddenly became reluctant to create new articles or fix errors or add their kernels of wisdom to existing pages.” [...] “There is a [...]

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Social Collider

Is not new but I just found it accidentally. Actually, it is a nice story (I mean for me): today I found this font designed by Markus Schröppel and I asked if it is possible to use it. We have started talking or writing respectively and he is giving courses at the University of Lapland [...]

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Selected results from the IEEE VAST Challenge 2009 workshop

Last Saturday we spent one day in Atlantic City, New Jersey. No, it wasn’t because we wanted to contribute money towards located casinos. At this day we attended the workshop of the IEEE VAST Challenge 2009 in order to receive our award ☺ Overall, the trip from Pittsburgh to Atlantic City was more than worth [...]

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