Man, this just shouldn’t happen…

Back on my “old blog”:1, I “wrote”:2 about an IBM research project called “_History Flow_”:3 that studied how Wikipedia pages evolve. Now there is a “multimedia presentation”:4 of the History Flow tool up on the web! Check it out, it’s kind of interesting to see the tool in action. The presenter is “Fernanda Viegas”:5 who is one of researchers who worked on creating the tool.

I originally found the History Flow presentation from a “post”:6 on Scoble’s blog about the “Social Computing Symposium 2005″:7. Here’s a “link”:8 to the full list of presentations from the symposium from Korby Parnell’s blog . Some more good stuff.

[8(Korby Parnells list of Social Computing Symposium multimedia presentations)]http://blogs.msdn.com/korbyp/archive/2005/06/27/433216.aspx

[7(Social Computing Symposium home page)]http://research.microsoft.com/workshops/SCS2005/

[6(Scobles post on the Social Computing Symposium presentations)]http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2005/06/27.html#a10495

[5(Fernanda Viegas home page)]http://web.media.mit.edu/~fviegas/

[4(History Flow multimedia presentation)]http://research.microsoft.com/workshops/scs2005/12224/default.htm

[3(IBMs History Flow Page)]http://researchweb.watson.ibm.com/history/index.htm

[2(Original Zoinger post on History Flow)]http://www.zoinger.com/archives/2005/04/06/19.11.38/

[1(The old Zoinger blog)]http://www.zoinger.com/old_blog.html

In the past, I’ve tried to link to Wikipedia for an explanation of the term “_screencast_”:2. Well, I’ve finally been able to do that, since a user recently posted the original entry for this term on the 13th of March, 2005. You can see this by looking at the “history”:3 view for Wikipedia term _screencast_.

Another recent entry to Wikipedia is the term “_podcasting_”:4, which was “created”:5 on the 2nd of Oct, 2004.

How about “_folksonomy_”:6? “Born”:7 on the 8th of Nov. 2004.

“Del.icio.us”:8? “Created”:9 September 1st, 2004.

Perhaps there is something to monitoring Wikipedia for new terms as they are “created”:10 and as they are “changed”:11… perhaps you can tap into trends very early in their lives?

[11(Wikipedia's recent changes page)]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Recentchanges

[10(Wikipedia's new terms page)]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Newpages

[9(Original Del.icio.us entry on Wikipedia)]http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Del.icio.us&oldid=5779908

[8(Wikipedia entry for Del.icio.us)]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Del.icio.us

[7(Original folksonomy entry on Wikipedia)]http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Folksonomy&direction=prev&oldid=7629254

[6(Wikipedia entry for folksonomy)]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/folksonomy

[5(Original podcasting entry on Wikipedia)]http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Podcasting&direction=prev&oldid=6313268

[4(Wikipedia entry for podcasting)]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcasting

[2(Wikipedia entry for screencast)]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screencast

[3(Wikipedia history view of screencast entry )]http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Screencast&action=history