From Wikimedia Foundation listserv officially comes happy news that Wikimedia Commons now has over two million files. Since March 2007,  Commons routinely have over 100,000 files uploaded every single month. It is becoming more and more common to have over 5,000 files in a single day, since Commons is still …

Just came back from Netherlands where I’ve spent great, useful quality of time talking, discussing with colleagues and professionals from different backgrounds, participating, exchanging information, sharing information. They all have in common new concepts and ideas of learning, using new media tools, as well as exploring institutional and cultural issues. …

British researchers recently focused on two most popular social networks -Myspace and Facebook. Here is what they have found out in their study: face to face interaction is the key if you want your friendship last, said Will Reader, an evolutionary psychologist at Sheffield Hallam University. “Nearly all our close …

After annual Wikimania – International Wikimedia conference in Taipei, two interesting articles/readings (New York Times): interview with Jimbo Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, and the other on presentations, panels, discussions during the conference.

Today via  we could find out the Open Library has very interesting and ambitious project to create the world online catalogue of every book in every language ever published. Aaron Swartz, leader of the technical team working on Open Library, suggests that every book ever published needs a single authoritative …