Dr. Matt Lee (mattl)

Web standards, accessibility, free/open source software, old UNIX/TV/Music and occasional wargaming

Corruption of the Wikipedia (2008)

“Wikipedia is not only amateur-friendly, but expert-unfriendly. They pretend not to be, and give lip service to the importance of expert editors. But when you put the rules together, you realize that people who are actually authorities on a subject are forced to argue with one hand tied behind their backs.”

introducing identi.ca (2008)

Today, I stopped Twittering.Yesterday, I became aware, as many did, of a service called identi.ca — the first thing I thought was “Wow, that’s the end of Twitter for me then”The sad thing? I started hacking around on some ideas for my own Twitter clone last week, but I lack the commitment to really go through with it, which is great, because identi.ca is free software — and not just any free software, but AGPL to boot.I’m identi.ca/mattl of course, and some people have already found and fo