REVIEW Pears Cyclopedia 2012-2013

By Sam VakninAuthor of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" The 2012-2013 edition of Pears Cyclopaedia is the first major revision in some time. It adds considerable heft to veteran chapters as well as re-introduces categories of knowledge from previous ...

Britannica Everywhere?

By Sam VakninAuthor of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" Overview Britannica Online Encyclopedia Britannica 2011-2012 Ultimate Editions Britannica Guides and CD-ROMs Overview The Encyclopedia Britannica has long been much more than a venerable print reference ...

BOOK REVIEW: The Oldale Curiosity Shop

“Who, or Why, or Which, or What: A Global Gazetteer of the Instructive and Strange” by John Oldale – London and New-York, Particular Books (Penguin Group), 2011 The classic gazetteer is a numbing compilation of places: their names, their coordinates in an attendant...

Complete Encyclopedia of Life to be Made Available Free Online

The complete Encyclopedia of Life, (EOL), the most comprehensive database about the earth and all the life that lives here, will be made available for free online for the first time ever. "It is an ambitious,...

Carnalpedia - Wiki encyclopedia for porn is launched

Now there is a wikipedia for pornography too. Named as Carnalpedia this is a "free, peer-editable adult graphic encyclopedia about sex" as described in the homepage .Carnalpedia is compliant with RTA Labels that...

JK Rowling Wins Copyright Lawsuit Against Fan

As NowPublic reported earlier this year, author JK Rowling filed a lawsuit against Steven Vander Ark for his attempt to publish a fan-created, but unauthorized, Harry Potter encyclopedia.Today it was announced...

Medical Wikipedia in the works

A new project to compile the largest online medical resource is underway. It's based on the same technology used by Wikipedia and is intended to make esoteric medical information widely accessible and easy to...

German Wikipedia: NowFossilized

The most popular 50, 000 terms on the German Wikipedia website will be turned into a 750 page book, a German publisher announced last week, at the Wikipedia conference in Alexandria, Egypt."That means France's...

Wikipedia Tries Approval System to Reduce Vandalism on Pages

Wikipedia is considering a basic change to its editing philosophy to cut down on vandalism. In the process, the online encyclopedia anyone can edit would add a layer of hierarchy and eliminate some of the spontaneity that has made the site, at times, an informal source of...

US 'insults' Berlusconi in press notes

"The Bush administration was forced yesterday to issue a grovelling apology to the Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, after White House officials briefed the travelling US press corps that Berlusconi was...

Wiki growing pains: mo' money mo' problems

Wikipedia finds itself in an enviable position, one of increasing success. But finding a business plan that balances the company's enormous potential for growth with its non-profit independence is proving...

J.K. Rowling tells court her 'creativity is stifled' by lawsuit

J.K. Rowling says her lawsuit against a man trying to print an unofficial Harry Potter encyclopedia is giving her writer's block. The Harry Potter mastermind said in court her distress isn't about the money, but...

Wikipedia's Identity Crisis

Wikipedia fascinates me. Its creators' intentions were so straightforward: create a user-powered encyclopedia that can be changed as our understanding evolves, and as new technology and memes emerge. Since those...

Wikipedia Reliability at Stake After ‘Edit 4 Donations’ Allegation on Jim...

"New Delhi (ABC Live): Jimmy Wales, the founder of world famed online encyclopedia, Wikipedia has been accused content tampering in lieu of $5000 donation in Wikipedia."

First pages of Encyclopedia of Life go online

"Washington (ANTARA News) - The first 30,000 pages of the online Encyclopedia of Life were unveiled Wednesday as part of an ambitious project to catalogue the 1.8 million species known on Earth. In an immediate sign of its success, the Internet site www.eol.org was quickly...

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