World experts on social networks, blogging and “Web 3.0” come to Cork in March

Posted on February 2, 2008 by John Breslin

Cork will play host to the 5th International Conference on Social Software - BlogTalk - from the 2nd to the 4th of March 2008.
The BlogTalk event – see 2008.blogtalk.net - allows practitioners, developers and academics to connect and discuss the latest trends and happenings in the world of social software (blogs, wikis, social networks, etc.). [...]

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Japanese civil servants reprimanded for Wikipedia anime article edits

Posted on October 8, 2007 by John Breslin

Six civil servants in the agriculture ministry of the Japanese government have been reprimanded for their combined 408 edits to the Wikipedia.
The most prolific of the six made 260 changes to pages related to “Mobile Suit Gundam”, a Japanese animation show (or “anime” ;) about giant robots.
A representative for the ministry, Tsutomu Shimomura, said: “The agriculture [...]

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