Google’s SideWiki – Interview Notes

Finance & Commerce writer Arundhati Parmar has just published What will Google’s Sidewiki mean for online businesses?. I sent my thoughts about Google’s SideWiki to Arundhati for this piece but as luck would have it, I emailed my thoughts too late for inclusion in the story. In addition to Parmar’s excellent story, here are my [...]

Wikipedia Bans Scientologists

Stephen Colbert’s take on Scientologists’ attack on Wikipedia.

The One Big Thing: Google Wave

Just when it looked like the big news for the week was going to be Microsoft’s announcement of their latest attempt to grab search market share with Bing, Google comes in and rains all over their parade. So, then, The One Big Thing you need to know about this week is Google Wave. Earlier this [...]

Google Let’s Users Customize Search Results

Google has released what they call Google Search Wiki. Search Wiki is essentially the ability of logged-in users to add comments to search results, to be able to promote certain links to the top of the results for a given search, and to add your own URLs to a given search. It is unclear whether Google [...]

Minneapolis Bridge Collapse & Citizen Journalism

Because I live in Saint Paul and Internet communication is my profession, I have watched the aftermath of the Minneapolis bridge collapse with the horror and sorrow of a Minnesotan who loves my community, but also as a communications professional who observes online behavior daily.   I35W Bridge Collapse    Originally uploaded by [...]

MikeCiresi.org – Cybersquatting In The Minnesota US Senate Race

I originally published this story in the June 7, 2007 issue of the Politics In Minnesota newsletter. I’m posting it here because it has a lot of bearing on Internet marketing in general and on online reputation management in particular. Cybersquatting & Wikipedia Intrigue A Google search for the words "mike ciresi" revealed an interesting Internet [...]

What Are Wikis?

Last month I posted a video that explained RSS. Here is another very good, plain English explanation of what wikis are and how they work, produced by Common Craft:

Wikipedia Abuse – Sen. Coleman Staffer Banned

Let this be a cautionary tale. If you or your organization are mentioned or have a page on Wikipedia or a wiki, you should regularly monitor them for abuse either by a third party or by a member of your own organization. US Senate and House staffers have recently been banned from Wikipedia for abusing the [...]

Wikipolitica

Here in Minnesota we have established a rich tradition of online politics and Internet campaign innovation. In 1994, Minnesota E-Democracy held the first-ever online debate between candidates. In 1997, the first political banner ad was placed on a web site I published at the time. In 1998, Jesse Ventura won the governorship in part on [...]

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