Comments on: Blogosphere: The Enquirer For Geeks http://howtosplitanatom.com/news/blogosphere-the-enquirer-for-geeks/ Exploring The Intersections Of Technology and Society Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:12:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: sbspalding http://howtosplitanatom.com/news/blogosphere-the-enquirer-for-geeks/comment-page-1/#comment-22553 sbspalding Thu, 15 Nov 2007 11:41:18 +0000 http://howtosplitanatom.com/news/blogosphere-the-enquirer-for-geeks/#comment-22553 Dawn's insight is probably more spot on than any of us would like to admit. Though her final paragraph is also worth considering. No matter how silly the scuffles we do find a way to move the conversation forward. There is something to that. Dawn's insight is probably more spot on than any of us would like to admit. Though her final paragraph is also worth considering. No matter how silly the scuffles we do find a way to move the conversation forward. There is something to that.

]]> By: Mark T http://howtosplitanatom.com/news/blogosphere-the-enquirer-for-geeks/comment-page-1/#comment-22552 Mark T Thu, 15 Nov 2007 11:14:53 +0000 http://howtosplitanatom.com/news/blogosphere-the-enquirer-for-geeks/#comment-22552 Here's how one outsider sees us. Not a very attractive picture, I'm afraid.<br><a href="http://dawnkey.wordpress.com/2007/11/14/the-tech-vomiters/">http://dawnkey.wordpress.com/2007/11/14/the-tec...</a> Here's how one outsider sees us. Not a very attractive picture, I'm afraid.
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]]> By: sbspalding http://howtosplitanatom.com/news/blogosphere-the-enquirer-for-geeks/comment-page-1/#comment-22547 sbspalding Thu, 15 Nov 2007 08:25:52 +0000 http://howtosplitanatom.com/news/blogosphere-the-enquirer-for-geeks/#comment-22547 There have been on and off rumors of the Wikipedia folks getting into search, if they managed to pull it off it would be fantastic. But I'll believe it when I see it. There have been on and off rumors of the Wikipedia folks getting into search, if they managed to pull it off it would be fantastic. But I'll believe it when I see it.

]]> By: sbspalding http://howtosplitanatom.com/news/blogosphere-the-enquirer-for-geeks/comment-page-1/#comment-22551 sbspalding Thu, 15 Nov 2007 08:24:03 +0000 http://howtosplitanatom.com/news/blogosphere-the-enquirer-for-geeks/#comment-22551 No problem at all mate. :) Yea, funny how that works. No problem at all mate. :) Yea, funny how that works.

]]> By: andrewbaron http://howtosplitanatom.com/news/blogosphere-the-enquirer-for-geeks/comment-page-1/#comment-22550 andrewbaron Thu, 15 Nov 2007 04:27:25 +0000 http://howtosplitanatom.com/news/blogosphere-the-enquirer-for-geeks/#comment-22550 Hey thanks for the note. My oversight entirely. And thank you for noticing that the main polemic continues to go unaddressed by most of the commenters. ;P Hey thanks for the note. My oversight entirely. And thank you for noticing that the main polemic continues to go unaddressed by most of the commenters. ;P

]]> By: sbspalding http://howtosplitanatom.com/news/blogosphere-the-enquirer-for-geeks/comment-page-1/#comment-22549 sbspalding Wed, 14 Nov 2007 23:46:53 +0000 http://howtosplitanatom.com/news/blogosphere-the-enquirer-for-geeks/#comment-22549 Andrew I linked back to your blog and I linked to Jason's blog. I didn't link to Mahalo. Andrew I linked back to your blog and I linked to Jason's blog. I didn't link to Mahalo.

]]> By: andrewbaron http://howtosplitanatom.com/news/blogosphere-the-enquirer-for-geeks/comment-page-1/#comment-22548 andrewbaron Wed, 14 Nov 2007 23:18:56 +0000 http://howtosplitanatom.com/news/blogosphere-the-enquirer-for-geeks/#comment-22548 Interesting. I would suggest that you were trying to act as a point of reason with this post, and take a journalistic approach, but clearly your linking practices (for deciding to link to Mahalo and not Rocketboom), is the sign that your NOT taking a journalistic stance, but rather taking a sides on a political platform.<br><br>Thus, your argument broke down for me and I became disinterested in reading any further. . . Interesting. I would suggest that you were trying to act as a point of reason with this post, and take a journalistic approach, but clearly your linking practices (for deciding to link to Mahalo and not Rocketboom), is the sign that your NOT taking a journalistic stance, but rather taking a sides on a political platform.

Thus, your argument broke down for me and I became disinterested in reading any further. . .

]]> By: Nick Schmidt http://howtosplitanatom.com/news/blogosphere-the-enquirer-for-geeks/comment-page-1/#comment-22546 Nick Schmidt Wed, 14 Nov 2007 21:42:10 +0000 http://howtosplitanatom.com/news/blogosphere-the-enquirer-for-geeks/#comment-22546 Interesting point. I didn't know that about the head butting between Jason & Andrew.<br><br>Another human based search engine is <a href="http://ChaCha.com">ChaCha.com</a>. They just 10mil in funding.<br>However I have heard that the CEO/founder of wikipedia is looking to get involved with the search engine market.<br><br>Already most of the results from google include a link to wikipedia within the 1st page. So there is a market out there for wikipedia to get involved with. Interesting point. I didn't know that about the head butting between Jason & Andrew.

Another human based search engine is ChaCha.com. They just 10mil in funding.
However I have heard that the CEO/founder of wikipedia is looking to get involved with the search engine market.

Already most of the results from google include a link to wikipedia within the 1st page. So there is a market out there for wikipedia to get involved with.

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