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'''BK:''' There is a professor at Kansas State University who does ethnographic studies of cyberspace cultures.  One of his classes focused on the phenomenon of YouTube.  He recently gave a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPAO-lZ4_hU presentation of his work] at the Library of Congress.  It's worth watching, mainly for the example of his kind of scholarship. —[[User:Moulton|Moulton]] 20:15, 9 October 2008 (PDT)
 
'''BK:''' There is a professor at Kansas State University who does ethnographic studies of cyberspace cultures.  One of his classes focused on the phenomenon of YouTube.  He recently gave a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPAO-lZ4_hU presentation of his work] at the Library of Congress.  It's worth watching, mainly for the example of his kind of scholarship. —[[User:Moulton|Moulton]] 20:15, 9 October 2008 (PDT)
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:First seven minutes are very engaging.  I'm left with the question, "where did Wikipedia make the mistaken turns away from this magical sense of joyful empowerment?"  I'll continue later.  Bed time now. -- [[User:MyWikiBiz|MyWikiBiz]] 20:33, 9 October 2008 (PDT)
 
:First seven minutes are very engaging.  I'm left with the question, "where did Wikipedia make the mistaken turns away from this magical sense of joyful empowerment?"  I'll continue later.  Bed time now. -- [[User:MyWikiBiz|MyWikiBiz]] 20:33, 9 October 2008 (PDT)
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::WP made the same mistake that humankind made back in the days of Hammurabi.  They adopted a lamentably idiotic community regulatory mechanism.  They adopted a regulatory mechanism ideally suited to games or drama, but ill-suited to an academic enterprise.  There really isn't any excuse for it.  It was a fundamental failure of leadership.  —[[User:Moulton|Moulton]] 21:32, 9 October 2008 (PDT)
    
'''DT:''' Have you reserved any .org or .info domains, in case the project turns into a noncommercial informational resource rather than a commercial entity? [[User:Dtobias|Dtobias]] 20:44, 9 October 2008 (PDT)
 
'''DT:''' Have you reserved any .org or .info domains, in case the project turns into a noncommercial informational resource rather than a commercial entity? [[User:Dtobias|Dtobias]] 20:44, 9 October 2008 (PDT)
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