Todd's Old Blog

Tag: collaboration

  • ONLY YOU Can Prevent Edit Wars

    Recently, I resolved an edit war on GCPEDIA.  Well, that’s a bit of an overstatement I suppose.  I intervened in a situation where a couple of users were beginning to revert each others’ edits and exchange words via the edit history comments.  I smelled smoke, then stomped out the sparks before any serious fire could…

  • On Free Culture

    I love free.  I blog about it; I tweet about it; I consume it; I produce it. Free Culture is a difficult concept for some to understand, primarily because we have been born and raised in a capitalist society where few things in life are truly free, both in terms of their monetary cost and…

  • How GCPEDIA will Save the Public Service, revisited

    In March of 2009 David Eaves suggested that GCPEDIA will save the public service .  As a public servant and a GCPEDIA administrator, I’d like to believe he’s right.  His main argument was that GCPEDIA has the potential to become the repository of much knowledge that will be lost (or at least not conveniently accessible) once…

  • Wikinomics

    I’ve just begun reading Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams. I admit, I was excited to read this.  While I had some concerns about the concept of “Wikinomics”, this factored greatly into my interest in reading. Not at all surprisingly, two things were immediately unsettling early in the…