wiki

I watched a TED talk by the founder of Wikipedia. It's a pretty impressive organization that does a remarkable job filtering good content from bad and basically self-policing. Apparently, there's only one full-time employee, a software developer named Brian. I find that hard to believe, but it is true that almost all of the work is done by an enormous volunteer labor force. That's very cool. It sounds like it would be a cool school project, for kids to edit and contribute to pages. What's the point of learning something new if you don't share it with other people?

I stopped by a Rosetta Stone booth at the mall today and got a quick tour. I was pretty impressed. They use voice analysis software to compare your speech with voice recordings. Pretty cool. Definitely wish I had had it when I was learning French, Spanish, German. Every kid studying a foreign language ought to be using this stuff.