Wikipedia and the Value of No Experts At All

By leelefever on January 18, 2008 - 10:32am.

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My Dad has a saying about trying to get boys to do work.  "One boy is worth one boy, two boys is worth half-a-boy and three boys is worth no boys at all."

When I look at Wikipedia with my plain English glasses, I think the same is true about experts. Look at it this way...

Let's say you're trying to learn about digestion.  You can likely find an expert who can sit with you and make digestion very easy to understand. Now, lets say you're talking to two experts. Something changes - the experts are now double checking each other and looking for ways to relate their unique point of view. With each expert you add, the more accurate the information becomes and the harder it becomes for you to understand.

Transcript: Blogs In Plain English

You’ve seen the word, you've seen the web sites and you may even have one.  But have you ever wondered:  What's the big deal about blogs?

This is blogs in plain English.

To make sense of blogs, you have to think about news and who makes it. We'll look at news in the 20th vs. the 21st century to make our point.

In the 20th century, the news was produced professionally.  When news happened, reporters wrote the stories and a tiny group of people decided what appeared in a newspaper or broadcast. Professional news was mainstream: general and limited.

Help Translate the Google Docs Video on DotSUB

By leelefever on September 21, 2007 - 3:55pm.

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• paperworks
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We've been friends and fans of dotSUB since we first started making video for The Common Craft Show.  They make it easy for videos to be translated into multiple languages via subtitles. 

The RSS in Plain English video has been translated into 20+ languages on dotSUB. A truly useful and innovative service.

I've gotten permission from the Google Docs team to share the Google Docs video on dotSUB so it's acessible for the hearing impaired and our non-English speaking friends.

Video: RSS in Plain English

By leelefever on April 23, 2007 - 9:09pm.

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• socialmedia
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The Weblog Elevator Pitch- One Year Later

By leelefever on April 27, 2005 - 3:27pm.

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• business
• communication
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• simplicity
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It was one year ago that I won my first contest as a writer. The challenge was to create the "perfect corporate weblog elevator pitch". It was put on by the folks at Weblogs Inc. via the Social Software Weblog and Judith Meskill.

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