Saying Goodbye To The Kojo Nnamdi Show
On this last episode, we look back on 23 years of joyous, difficult and always informative conversation.
From Wikipedia — the Internet’s biggest communal encyclopedia — to your local book club, wikis allow all users to be authors and editors. They operate on a simple concept — web-content altered and edited by a multitude of users — but their influence is complex. A Tech Tuesday look at the recent controversies over Wikipedia and future of wikis.
Guests
- Ben Bederson Professor of Computer Science, University of Maryland-College Park; Director of Client Technologies, ZenZui
- Alex Halavais Assistant Professor of Communications, School of Informatics, University of Buffalo
- Kat Walsh Senior Editor, Wikipedia
- James Byers Co-founder, Wikispaces
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