THIS BLOG HAS MOVED, JEJU, SOUTH KOREA

This blog has moved to jimsaunders.info/blog.

WEB FIRST, PRINT SECOND, JEJU, SOUTH KOREA

Here at Jeju Life we have a limited number of magazines printed every month. Therefore I’m going to go ahead and cannibalize the audience to hell by publishing all Jeju Life stories on the web site before the magazine.

It just makes plain sense.

Traffic to the web site well exceeds our monthly tally of print issues. Plus this information can be accessed at any time on any day with additional media (like google maps and flickr albums).

Which policy do you operate when it comes to content? Web first or print first?

For those of you well and truly on the New Media wagon, have a watch of this video in which Jay Rosen (of PressThink) explains that if he were a print reporter at a mid-sized newspaper in a mid-sized American city, he would develop a large online network to help create content. Excellent.

WHO ARE BEHIND THOSE ANONYMOUS EDITS ON WIKIPEDIA? JEJU, SOUTH KOREA

When you make an edit to Wikipedia, you have two choices: first, you can register and leave your username; or you can edit anonymously. But, when you edit anonymously, it uses your IP address – a number which identifies what computer network you are from – in lieu of a username. Wikipedia does this for convenience to distinguish your anonymous edits from someone else’s anonymous edits.

In essence, WikiScanner combines two databases: the list of all IP adresses that have made edits to Wikipedia; and what IP addresses belong to which companies. So with WikiScanner you can type a company name, and it shows you what edits have come from IP addresses owned by that company.

So for example:

This Just In … MSN Search is Great!
Microsoft’s MSN Search is now “a major competitor to Google”. Take it from this anonymous contributor, whose IP address belongs to Waggener Edstrom, Microsoft’s PR firm.

MySpace Problems Solved In in Two Quick Edits
Someone from MySpace’s IP block in Los Angeles takes issue with the “Censorship” section in MySpace’s wikipedia entry, and, um, censors it — cuts it out entirely. “Security and spyware” is similarly excised minutes later.

Armenian genocide deleted by Anonymous
Somebody from the Turkish Treasury removed the part on the Armenian genocide.

For a full list of the latest questionable edits visit here.

- Sourced from: Who’s behind Wikipedia: Virgil Griffith’s WikiScanner investigates

DEALING WITH EMAIL, JEJU, SOUTH KOREA

Email is such a funny thing. People hand you these single little messages that are no heavier than a river pebble. But it doesn’t take long until you have acquired a pile of pebbles that’s taller than you and heavier than you could ever hope to move, even if you wanted to do it over a few dozen trips. But for the person who took the time to hand you their pebble, it seems outrageous that you can’t handle that one tiny thing. “What ‘pile’? It’s just a pebble!

- Merlin Mann