: Name: Paul Hyland; Location: Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

I'm the executive producer for the web site of a nonprofit publisher of education news, information, and resources, I play in a band, and I work on analyzing and influencing the impact of computers on society. I love my partner in life and my daughter very much.

My Daughter

She hangs w/ her peeps
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Videos:
She Walks @ 1 (9.6MB)
She Drums @ 2 (2.6MB)

Paul's Web Space 2.1

Politics, Culture, Technology

Stories about cool events I've attended, musings about social media and other technology, and commentary about people, issues, ideas, whatever. I've had a web site since 1994, at my own domain since 1997, and switched it to blog format in 2005. Now, in 2008, I've added labels, shuffled things around a bit and fixed some style and UI quirks - hence 2.1. Watch for more widgets and microformats....

Thursday, August 16, 2007

Who edits Wikipedia for organizational ends?

We all knew this was happening, but here's a tool - Wikipedia Scanner - that enables you to find out who's editing Wikipedia to benefit the political, image, or bottom line of an organization. Wired News reports on this cool tool, and also created a page for readers to share the most shameful Wikipedia spin jobs.

Link: http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2007/08/wiki_tracker?currentPage=all

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