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| | m2h blogging » apparatus question |
| | I’m not sure if this will be of much help, but http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apparatus_Theory has a brief discussion of apparatus theory. | | | Ulmer “means [electracy] to represent the state of meaning-making at the time that its central apparatus is electronic media. | | | He says that apparatus theory has been problematized as too essentialist. |
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http://mwrites.com/blog/?p=502
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| | In preparing for this (otherwise most welcome) sort of invasion, it would help if we had something akin to a (humorous) "Fire Department," where, when "war" or "flooding" (i.e., the aforementioned media-induced invasion of new contributors) strikes, the "firefighters" are called out to very nicely assimilate and bring under control problematic newbies. | | | As well as calling out the fire department on wikipedia:announcements and the mailing lists, various technical measures were taken to reduce the load on the servers. | | | Through these actions the slashdot effect was weathered: the servers became significantly slower, but did not crash, and while there was some increase in vandalism, particularly on articles related to slashdot, it was not significant. |
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http://www.yourencyclopedia.net/WP:FD.html
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| | In preparing for this (otherwise most welcome) sort of invasion, it would help if we had something akin to a (humorous) "Fire Department," where, when "war" or "flooding" (i.e., the aforementioned media-induced invasion of new contributors) strikes, the "firefighters" are called out to very nicely assimilate and bring under control problematic newbies. | | | As well as calling out the fire department on wikipedia:announcements and the mailing lists, various technical measures were taken to reduce the load on the servers. | | | Through these actions the slashdot effect was weathered: the servers became significantly slower, but did not crash, and while there was some increase in vandalism, particularly on articles related to slashdot, it was not significant. |
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http://www.yourencyclopedia.net/WP:FD.html
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