[Air-l] Re: MultiMediaStations in Austria, wikipedia etc

David Brake david.brake at cfrq.net
Wed Dec 15 03:35:21 PST 2004


For what it's worth, British Telecom has 1,500 Internet kiosks around the 
country (certainly many in London) 
http://www.btplc.com/Innovation/Mobility/booth/ and I believe they have 
been around for at least two years - I have to say I have never seen anyone 
use them...

As for collaborative content, there were several attempts before 
Wikipedia's success including http://www.everything2.com/ (mentioned in the 
Emigh & Herring paper), http://www.nupedia.com/ and my personal favourite, 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/ (the BBC purchased and took over Douglas 
Adams' Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy collaborative encyclopedia which 
specialises in the quirky and is built around a community but is more 
explicitly hierarchical than the other efforts).

David Brake, PhD researcher in Media and Communications, London School of 
Economics & Political Science
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/media@lse/study/mPhilPhDMediaAndCommunications.htm
Also see http://davidbrake.org/ (home page) and http://blog.org/ (weblog)
Author of Dealing With E-Mail - http://davidbrake.org/dealingwithemail/ 
gives ordering info and supplementary links 




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