by Minter Dial | Jan 15, 2011 | Social Media
Today (January 15th, 2011) is Wikipedia’s 10th birthday. And it is a great day, too. With an Alexa ranking of 8th (not 10th!) and 400 million monthly unique visitors, Wikipedia captures daily 14% of the world’s internet users. Wikipedia...
by Minter Dial | Oct 4, 2010 | Social Media
Enterprise 2.0 — How wikis can make sense in a company setting One of the top sites in pretty much any country is Wikipedia, with some 360 million monthly visits. It is 7th worldwide per Alexa (6th in the US, 11th in France and 124th in China). The very notion...
by Minter Dial | Mar 7, 2010 | Politics
WikiLeaks is one of the most riveting initiatives (read: ongoing battles) on the Internet and is putting a new spin on the transparency-anonymity debate. The Sunshine Press, which runs WikiLeaks, is an non-profit organization funded by human rights...
by Minter Dial | Mar 7, 2010 | Politics
This is the second of four posts on the topic of Transparency. The first post (link here) in this series dealt with transparency on a societal and individual level. This second post deals with the role of the Internet in the evolving importance of transparency. Any...
by Minter Dial | Sep 11, 2007 | Politics, Social Media
Well, just as time is money, getting the news out there first is gold (at least for news media). I was fascinated by the time line on the breaking of the news about the death of US House of Representative from Washington, Jennifer Dunn. As you can read in this Seattle...