Scott Evans (www.antisleep.com) has come up with a nifty utility that lets you plug in the URL for a website and then scans the Wikipedia for entries matching words or terms on the site you selected. The "Wikipedizer" returns the results as an xml page with links for each entry. More:

I got a little uneasy when I read cel4145's entry, The Open Source Development Model Meets Professional Writing and Service Learning: OSDDP, not from anything cel4145 said, but because I don't care for the term "service learning." And Matt asked for comments, so here goes.

On the positive side, the cause (open source documentation) is a fine one (and lord knows, an improvement on Bugzilla). Open source and Open Education are heroic endeavors. But I'm not very happy with the term "service learning." Maybe it's just semantics. Or a bad mood.

A very academic blog from Semantics Online, with lots of papers and abstracts. Recent titles include: "Academic Collaboration and Tenure"; "Feminism and Philosophy of Language"; and my favorite, “Monotonicity in Opaque Verbs.”

The new beta My Yahoo allows users to include blogs and RSS feeds.

Clancy's blog entry on Heather James' entry on Wiki navigation (which referred to Mark Hurst's articles on web navigation and was trackbacked to a discussion by Randy Brown, to which I added a nostalgic comment) started me thinking about whether or not we should apply to blogs and wikis the usability standards derived from observing web page users.