This video gives you the quick gist of how wikis work, and it’s part of a larg­er series of videos on YouTube — called The Com­mon­craft Show — that explain the inner-work­ings of var­i­ous tech items. Recent videos delve into the mechan­ics of Twit­ter, RSS Feeds, social net­work­ing, and online pho­to shar­ing. We’ve added the video below to our YouTube playlist and the Com­mon­craft series to our larg­er col­lec­tion called 60 Signs of Intel­li­gent Life on YouTube. For oth­er good videos that demys­ti­fy things tech­ni­cal, you may want to check out this and this.

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Just a quick fyi: Ama­zon’s dig­i­tal book read­er, the Kin­dle, is final­ly back in sup­ply. If you’ve been wait­ing since March, now is your chance.

Thank good­ness.

In case you’ve ever won­dered .…

I want­ed to flag for you a three part series on the “dig­i­tal com­mons” and the preser­va­tion of open source edu­ca­tion. Pro­duced by Tom Han­son at OpenEducation.net, you can find the three arti­cles below. Also, to get more con­tent along these lines, head on over to OER Blogs, a good aggre­ga­tor of open edu­ca­tion resource blogs.

• The Dig­i­tal Com­mons – Left Unreg­u­lat­ed, Are We Des­tined for Tragedy?
• An Inter­view with Ahrash Bis­sell of the Cre­ative Com­mons
• The Open Dig­i­tal Com­mons — A Tru­ly End­less Array of Suc­cess Sto­ries

The Pulitzer Cen­ter on Cri­sis Report­ing (which we recent­ly fea­tured in 10 Signs of Intel­li­gent Life at YouTube) is spon­sor­ing the Glob­al Issues/Citizen Voic­es Con­test. Final win­ners will be cho­sen by the Pulitzer Cen­ter and will receive a Pulitzer Cen­ter Cit­i­zen Jour­nal­ist Award. You can get involved. The dead­line is March 12. Get details here.

Just a quick note: If you Google “Open Cul­ture,” you’ll now find that Google has placed “sub-links” beneath the main search results, and these sub-links give you access to some of our most pop­u­lar pages. (See real-time search results here.) If you’re look­ing for free audio­books, online cours­es and for­eign lan­guage lessons (just to give a few exam­ples), then this is one quick way to access them.

This ani­mat­ed mock­u­men­tary traces the his­to­ry of evil from Ancient Greece until today. It’s been get­ting some play on the inter­net this week. And, if any­thing, you have to give it points for cre­ativ­i­ty. We’ve added it to our YouTube Playlist.

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