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2013: A Make-or-Break Year for Citizendium? 2 Jan 2013 | 03:56 am
Possibly. In that case, let’s work together to make it a “Make-Year”. Why should we? Because at core we want to build a free, online source of a broad spectrum of knowledge that provides readers wit...
Finances and Collaborators 5 Sep 2012 | 04:05 am
Guest blogger: Hayford Peirce, Citizendium Treasurer I’ve been the Treasurer of Citizendium (CZ) for the last six months or so. As such, I am happy to report that Anthony Sebastian’s recent fund-raisi...
Sense of Purpose 3 Aug 2012 | 06:24 am
According to Nobel Laureate, Robert William Fogel, we must have a sense of purpose in order to enjoy a life feeling fulfilled (see Citizendium article, The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Ega...
Things I like about Citizendium - #2 26 Jul 2012 | 11:35 am
One of the nice things I like about writing or editing for Citizendium is the availability of ‘subpages’, complementary pages attached to the Main Article. The subpages give you the opportunity to ex...
Benefits of volunteering time to the Citizendium community 16 Jul 2012 | 06:30 am
All of the registered members of our Citizendium community undoubtedly have some idea of why they volunteer their time helping each other develop our encyclopedia. In addition to any rational idea we...
Things I like about Citizendium - #1 10 Jul 2012 | 11:35 pm
One of the nice things I like about Citizendium is learning the identities and backgrounds of the people with whom I’m collaborating with during the course of developing an article. Because all of ou...
Citizendium and Independence Day 2012 5 Jul 2012 | 11:38 am
As Independence Day shows dimming twilight outside my office window, I find myself thinking rather of ‘dependence’, how Citizendium’s contribution to the organization and dissemination of knowledge on...
Citizendium Charter Ratified 23 Sep 2010 | 04:10 pm
[The following is a mail I sent to Citizendium-L earlier this evening. UPDATE: title fixed, thanks Tom. ] Congratulations, everyone! I agree that the Charter has been ratified; I hereby ratify it. ...
Reply to Slashdot about my report to the FBI 12 Apr 2010 | 04:43 pm
On April 7, I posted the text of a report I made to the FBI to the EDTECH mailing list, in which I stated that, in my opinion, the Wikimedia Foundation may knowingly have posted “child pornography,” b...
New (2010) Edge.org question: how the Internet is changing the way you think 9 Jan 2010 | 05:56 am
“How Has The Internet Changed The Way You Think?” A zillion famous scientists and other luminaries have given answers. Here is mine. THE UN-FOCUSING, DE-LIBERATING EFFECTS OF JOINING THE HIVE MIND ...
