This is actually a fantastically cool idea.
- d.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Larry Sanger sanger@citizendium.org Date: 2009/10/19 Subject: [SharedKnowing] WatchKnow launches! To: sharedknowing@mail.citizendium.org
Dear all,
I'm delighted to announce that WatchKnow (http://www.watchknow.org/) is launching today! Dive in!
The new site makes educational videos for kids ridiculously easy to find. We are launching with over 10,000 videos placed in over 2,000 categories, arranged in a very handy directory. The site is a new kind of wiki: working together, contributors can edit video information, and they can also edit the directory by drag and drop, which will make building the resource truly "wikiwiki"--fast. While the project is wide open and easy to get involved with (even anonymously), the project engages teachers to act as community moderators. It is non-profit and generously supported by an anonymous donor through the Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi. See how to edit the site in this screencast video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pOgSt2nWu0
We decided to get the word out on the grassroots level--in other words, virally--before we do a press release in a couple days (maybe next week). So please, please, tweet about WatchKnow, blog about it, talk about it with your friends, etc.--and start working on the site! This is one Web 2.0 project that really has the potential to change the world in great ways, so it needs your support. If you love WatchKnow, say so and spread the word!
Regards, Larry ---------------- Lawrence M. Sanger, Ph.D. Editor-in-Chief, Citizendium.org Executive Director, WatchKnow.org sanger@citizendium.org
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Hoi, I hope we will have much to contribute to WatchKnow once our media software goes live. Thanks, GerardM
2009/10/20 David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com
This is actually a fantastically cool idea.
- d.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Larry Sanger sanger@citizendium.org Date: 2009/10/19 Subject: [SharedKnowing] WatchKnow launches! To: sharedknowing@mail.citizendium.org
Dear all,
I'm delighted to announce that WatchKnow (http://www.watchknow.org/) is launching today! Dive in!
The new site makes educational videos for kids ridiculously easy to find. We are launching with over 10,000 videos placed in over 2,000 categories, arranged in a very handy directory. The site is a new kind of wiki: working together, contributors can edit video information, and they can also edit the directory by drag and drop, which will make building the resource truly "wikiwiki"--fast. While the project is wide open and easy to get involved with (even anonymously), the project engages teachers to act as community moderators. It is non-profit and generously supported by an anonymous donor through the Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi. See how to edit the site in this screencast video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pOgSt2nWu0
We decided to get the word out on the grassroots level--in other words, virally--before we do a press release in a couple days (maybe next week). So please, please, tweet about WatchKnow, blog about it, talk about it with your friends, etc.--and start working on the site! This is one Web 2.0 project that really has the potential to change the world in great ways, so it needs your support. If you love WatchKnow, say so and spread the word!
Regards, Larry
Lawrence M. Sanger, Ph.D. Editor-in-Chief, Citizendium.org Executive Director, WatchKnow.org sanger@citizendium.org
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On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 2:44 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
This is actually a fantastically cool idea.
I was familiar with the site after its previous launch, it then shut down for a while and has now returned looking rather more handsome.
However, I had written to Larry saying that what I felt was missing was the ability to subscribe to (sub)categories using RSS to which he replied he was looking into it.
Doesn't seem to be a facility at the moment unfortunately. < sulks >
Not free, not own content, not interested.
Categorizing content of internet has been repeatedly unsuccessful. Why it should be successful now?
Sorry, Jiri
On Tuesday, 20. October 2009 16:44:22 David Gerard wrote:
This is actually a fantastically cool idea.
- d.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Larry Sanger sanger@citizendium.org Date: 2009/10/19 Subject: [SharedKnowing] WatchKnow launches! To: sharedknowing@mail.citizendium.org
Dear all,
I'm delighted to announce that WatchKnow (http://www.watchknow.org/) is launching today! Dive in!
The new site makes educational videos for kids ridiculously easy to find. We are launching with over 10,000 videos placed in over 2,000 categories, arranged in a very handy directory. The site is a new kind of wiki: working together, contributors can edit video information, and they can also edit the directory by drag and drop, which will make building the resource truly "wikiwiki"--fast. While the project is wide open and easy to get involved with (even anonymously), the project engages teachers to act as community moderators. It is non-profit and generously supported by an anonymous donor through the Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi. See how to edit the site in this screencast video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pOgSt2nWu0
We decided to get the word out on the grassroots level--in other words, virally--before we do a press release in a couple days (maybe next week). So please, please, tweet about WatchKnow, blog about it, talk about it with your friends, etc.--and start working on the site! This is one Web 2.0 project that really has the potential to change the world in great ways, so it needs your support. If you love WatchKnow, say so and spread the word!
Regards, Larry
Lawrence M. Sanger, Ph.D. Editor-in-Chief, Citizendium.org Executive Director, WatchKnow.org sanger@citizendium.org
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On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Jiri Hofman hofmanj@aldebaran.cz wrote:
Not free, not own content, not interested.
Categorizing content of internet has been repeatedly unsuccessful. Why it should be successful now?
It's embedded. It's video! Y'know, it moves and makes sounds. That makes it a billion times better than words.
2009/10/20 Bod Notbod bodnotbod@gmail.com:
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Jiri Hofman hofmanj@aldebaran.cz wrote:
Not free, not own content, not interested. Categorizing content of internet has been repeatedly unsuccessful. Why it should be successful now?
It's embedded. It's video! Y'know, it moves and makes sounds. That makes it a billion times better than words.
They do want CC by-sa videos, and are interested in WMF and Metavid's work to make videos editable.
- d.
2009/10/20 Jiri Hofman hofmanj@aldebaran.cz:
Not free, not own content, not interested.
Categorizing content of internet has been repeatedly unsuccessful. Why it should be successful now?
Google News is pretty good...
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