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The Meaning of Everything
I started reading The Meaning of Everything, by Simon Winchester. I was struck, while reading at how ‘wikipedia-like’ the original proposal of creating the dictionary was. The goal was to capture...
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Notes from The Meaning of Everything
I finished the text of The meaning of everything, Simon Winchester. When you get right down to it, this is a real story, the real story of knowledge management: the creation of a dictionary. Everything...
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More Meaning of Everything Notes
P.43 …of fairy-tale fame, Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm wrote sinister children’s stories as well as dictionaries. P.53 On the Wikipedia-style of work first suggested for the New Dictionary, a group of 147...
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More thought on Google Pages
Thinking more about Google Pages, I think I get the idea. Consider, there are a couple ways to help people find information. One way is ‘search’ and using relevance and PageRank; Google’s got that...
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The OED is a wiki
While reading “The Meaning of Everything” by Winchester, I thought the collaborative approach to finding quotations awfully similar to wiki-ness. Someone else thinks so: “Diamond said the new...
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