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Scott Granneman's Classes : STUDY: Women and Wikipedia Don’t Mix

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 20:43:49 +0000

Sure you do. On THIS SITE. http://wu.granneman.com/2012/02/24/very-pinterest... And elsewhere: http://www.quora.com/What-proportion-of-active-Pi... http://www.wired.com/business/2012/09/pinterest-p... http://www.fanpop.com/clubs/justin-bieber/picks/s... http://msmagazine.com/blog/blog/2010/04/05/the-wo... Wikipedia is the LARGEST encyclopedia in the WORLD. The fact that almost none of the editors of that site are women is not just newsworthy—it’s a big PROBLEM. And equality has nothing to do with it. In fact, because they are equal, women should be participating much more on Wikipedia.

Scott Granneman's Classes : Wikipedia vs. Britannica Smackdown

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 20:38:25 +0000

EB is often wrong. Wikipedia has an article about errors in EB. Those take time to fix. Wikipedia’s are fixed immediately. If I’m reading about mass killings & want to really investigate the history of them, Wikipedia makes it far easier. That’s why people sometimes get "lost" in Wikipedia—they start reading about 1 thing & look up 3 hours later after reading 50 other Wikipedia articles that were linked from the original!

Scott Granneman's Classes : So, what is a CMS?

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 20:36:18 +0000

Re: workflows—in some organizations, you want persons A & B to write, but their work must be approved by C before it is published. Like it or not, that’s how some places do it. Makes sense, so you want a CMS that allows that. RE: authoring—sure, they’re (mostly) easy to author in. But that’s for the non-nerds doing the content. The nerds have to do all the back-end stuff, and yes, that’s far more complicated.

Scott Granneman's Classes : Writing sensible email messages

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 20:33:54 +0000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruft http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cr...

Scott Granneman's Classes : Adults Are Not So Inclined to Check In

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 20:32:38 +0000

Just like my other comment. You may never use a cell phone. And then one die you will die. And soon, everyone will use a cell phone (or the equivalent, whatever that is.)

Scott Granneman's Classes : Become a Skype power user with our 7 must-know secrets

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 20:31:36 +0000

No, you are not understanding what I am saying. What happens when your uncle, or your friend, or your boss, or your client wants to vid-chat with you & they don’t use Apple products? It’s great that right NOW the only person you wish to chat with has an iPad. But what about later? Are you just going to say to the client, "Sorry. You’re an inferior creature. No chat for you." That would be rather foolish. You should like a web developer from 10 years ago: "Everyone is using IE. I prefer IE. So I shall design only for IE." This is called the network effect: the more people who use a technology to communicate, the more attractive the technology becomes.

Scott Granneman's Classes : The Best PC for the Money

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 20:18:08 +0000

Great advice, Vincent! Thank you!

Scott Granneman's Classes : Facebook's Eroding Privacy Policy: A Timeline

Mon, 24 Dec 2012 05:27:12 +0000

And you probably will never use it. Or any social media. And you will die. Let me quote from an article to explain what I mean by that last sentence. it’s from an article by John Siracusa about ebooks (http://wu.granneman.com/2009/02/01/the-once-and-future-e-book-on-reading-in-the-digital-age/): "Time and again this happens, and it can happen without changing a single person’s mind. To put it bluntly, people die. Indeed, death is arguably the single most important driver for all human progress. Even in a community as reason-based as science, it’s often necessary to wait for one generation of scientists to die off before a new theory gains mainstream acceptance. It’s a bit much to hold consumers’ text-based media preferences to a higher standard. So, death and the passage of time — hardly romantic. It doesn’t have to be that way, of course. Plenty of new technologies gain widespread adoption without the aid of a generational turnover. But so far, books have held their ground. The message here is simply that, on the long graph, the result will be the same. The next generation, though influenced by the prejudices of their parents, are nevertheless more likely to judge new technologies on their merits, and so on for each new generation. And in the case of e-books, the merits are there, as plain as day. In fact, they’re some of the same merits that have driven other successful media transitions. … Lather, rinse, repeat. Did you ride a horse to work today? I didn’t. I’m sure plenty of people swore they would never ride in or operate a ‘horseless carriage’ — and they never did! And then they died." You & many others like you will never use social media. And then you will die. And sometime in the future, almost everyone will use social media, just as almost everyone now uses a computer, or a car, or a TV.

Scott Granneman's Classes : Social networks (Fall 2012)

Mon, 24 Dec 2012 05:22:38 +0000

Because it’s fun. If you never try it, how would you know?

Scott Granneman's Classes : Beckstrom's Law

Mon, 24 Dec 2012 05:04:49 +0000

Cynicism is cute, but not helpful.

Scott Granneman's Classes : Beckstrom's Law

Mon, 24 Dec 2012 05:04:06 +0000

Look at it from the opposite POV, as the article states: "It states that one way to contemplate the value the network adds to each transaction is to imagine the network being shut off and what the additional transactions costs or loss would be." That brings a different perspective.

Scott Granneman's Classes : The Record Industry's Decline

Sun, 23 Dec 2012 23:31:54 +0000

Not free, but cheap. $10 a month for millions of songs is pretty f'ing cheap!

Scott Granneman's Classes : Prince: A Nation of Thieves?

Sun, 23 Dec 2012 23:31:04 +0000

Spotify & Rdio are great, but you don’t own the music, & don’t have everything (Led Zeppelin, for instance, or The Beatles) available. Also, downloading over the Net is not stealing. It is infringement. Taking the CD from a store is stealing. Those are legal definitions.

Scott Granneman's Classes : Hollywood, Disney, and color TV adoption

Sun, 23 Dec 2012 23:08:05 +0000

You’ve NEVER watched a B&W movie? Ever??

Scott Granneman's Classes : The big DRM mistake

Sun, 23 Dec 2012 23:07:39 +0000

2 points: 1. Apple HAD to include the DRM to get the music co’s OK to sell the music. 2. Apple convinced the co’s to get rid of the DRM a few years ago. NONE of the music currently for sale is DRM’d. And you can replace all your old DRM'd songs with non-DRM’d ones easily.

Scott Granneman's Classes : Wikipedia vs. Britannica Smackdown

Sat, 22 Dec 2012 08:34:26 +0000

Which makes EB less useful.

Scott Granneman's Classes : STUDY: Women and Wikipedia Don’t Mix

Sat, 22 Dec 2012 08:33:40 +0000

You don't think women bring a different perspective than men? Really? You don't think it's important for the world's free encyclopedia to have more women editors??

Scott Granneman's Classes : The many facets of a slightly flawed gem

Sat, 22 Dec 2012 08:31:39 +0000

It's here for historical reasons. How far we've come.

Scott Granneman's Classes : Die, discs, die! Six reasons to kill the DVD

Sat, 22 Dec 2012 08:30:18 +0000

The future - and Apple - does not agree with you.

Scott Granneman's Classes : Become a Skype power user with our 7 must-know secrets

Sat, 22 Dec 2012 08:29:15 +0000

No no no - I mean the OTHER people to whom you talk. If THEY don't have Apple devices, then YOU cannot talk to them. But EVERYONE can use Skype, no matter what YOU or the OTHERS are using.