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if:book: Back to the Future -- In honor of Encyclopedia Britannica giving up its print edition

These drawings date from 1982 (thirty years ago). Alan Kay had just become the Chief Scientist at Atari and he asked me to work with him to continue the work I started at Encyclopedia Britannica on the idea of an Intelligent Encyclopedia. We came up with these scenarios of how the (future) encyclopedia might be used and commissioned Glenn Keane, a well-known Disney animator to render them. The captions also date from 1982.

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5 weeks ago by fjordaan

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xkcd: Extended Mind

When Wikipedia has a server outage, my apparent IQ drops by 30 points.

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january 2012 by fjordaan

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Wikipedia:Keyboard shortcuts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Keyboard shortcuts (access keys) are a complicated matter. This feature, in its current implementations was temporarily abandoned in WCAG 2.0, notably because it conflicts with the shortcuts of assistive technologies. Usage of access keys is currently discouraged in the online contents and applications.

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december 2011 by fjordaan

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Skeuomorph - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A skeuomorph or skeuomorphism is a derivative object which retains ornamental design cues to structure that was necessary in the original. Skeuomorphs may be deliberately employed to make the new look comfortably old and familiar, such as copper cladding on zinc pennies or computer printed postage with circular town name and cancellation lines.

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june 2010 by fjordaan

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Ten Word Wiki - The Express Till For The Internet

Ten Word Wiki is an Encyclopedia for the ADD generation.

We describe everything in ten words, look at the Index

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february 2010 by fjordaan

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Wikipedia’s markup: some case studies

Wikipedia is a fascinating eco-system of content, structure and style. I have dived down into this system in order to better understand it, learn how to reuse the content in many ways, and how to improve it.

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september 2009 by fjordaan

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Wikimedia Technical Blog

Technical Information for the Wikimedia Projects.

netvouzimported netvouzpublic blog techblog technical wikimedia wikipedia
april 2009 by fjordaan

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WikipediaVision (beta)

WikipediaVision (beta). Anonymous edits to Wikipedia (almost) in real-time.

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march 2009 by fjordaan

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Freebase

an open, shared database of the world's knowledge

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september 2008 by fjordaan

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Wikipedia article traffic statistics

What do Wikipedia's readers care about? Is Britney Spears more popular than Brittany? Is Asia Carrera more popular than Asia? How many people looked at the article on Santa Claus in December? How many looked at the article on Ron Paul?