Applications of blogging in business

Scott Anderson, Director of Enterprise Brand Communications at Hewlett-Packard, gave a talk on HP's use of blogs. He spends some time on using blogs for internal collaboration, but focuses primarily on their use in maintaing a two-way relationship with customers.

Britannica refutes Nature's comparison with Wikipedia

The BBC publised an article on Britannica's article-by-article refutation of the Nature study comparing Encyclopedia Britannica with the Wikipedia.

Municipal WiFi networks

WiFi was invented for indoor LANs in homes and offices, but it is also being used in cities. One report esitmates that 320 cities are building networks and another estimates that 126,000 square miles will be covered by 2010. See our class notes on municipal WiFi and the Hermosa Beach wireless project.

Five podcast excerpts

I've put five new excerpts from podcasts on our Web site. They cover the Wikipedia, sources of content for Internet applications, municipal WiFi in San Francisco, the impact of the Internet on the newspaper, and a discussion of mashups.

• Wikipedia entries for members of Congress
  


• Interview of Yahoo CEO Terry Semel on sources of content
  


• San Francisco moves closer to free wi-fi from American Public Media
  


• The best blogging newspapers from American Public Media
  


• Mashing up Web sites to create something new from American Public Media