User:Ilya/OpenWetWare/Notes

Talks

Shaping the Age of User-Generated Content

• Speaker: Amy Bruckman, Electronic Learning Communities (ELC) lab
• Date: 2007-11-02
• small diffs in usability change user experience dramatically
• diffs in policy make interesting differences in user behavior
• allow local groups to establish editorial guidelines
• challenge: lack local enforcement policies (wide policies are used instead)
• decentralization happens as a necessity of scale

Apple OSX server wiki

• seems to be written from scratch, not based on any existing wiki engine
• cool web interface - may be useful for lab notebook
• interesting way to make new entries: click new entry, enter title box appears then the editor opens with title and content in separate edit boxes
• calendar is built in but apparently doesn't work with google calendar