" Wikipedia’s future has been put in doubt as 49,000 volunteer editors left the site in the space of three months. By comparison, only 4,900 volunteers left the site last year in the same period of time. The...
created by Yommie | 3 days ago 60 views | 12 recommendations | 0 comments
Representatives from Google, YouTube, Wikipedia and Facebook have gathered in Vatican City today, not for a sermon or liturgy, but to give Vatican officials a lecture on the use of Internet and new media. During a four-day conference which started today, Vatican officials...
created by Yuliya Talmazan | 2 wks ago | updated 2 wks ago 112 views | 4 recommendations | 1 comment
We saw that with the spontaneous outburst of gratitude when Chicago lost the Olympic bid - but where do you go to see these actions in print? Salon.com tells us."Liberal bias can be found in the unlikeliest of places these days, and it's often the people you'd least suspect...
To help users navigate through its sea of content, Wikipedia is introducing new functionality called WikiTrust. Now, questionable content will be possible to spot visually. Two criteria will define the...
opinion by Yuliya Talmazan | 12 wks ago | updated 12 wks ago 237 views | 74 recommendations | 6 comments
From San Fransico Business Times, August 25, 2009: "The popular and ubiquitous online encyclopedia Wikipediaplans to change the way people contribute to some of its entries. The site, run by...
Wikipedia is changing how members contribute to online articles. The current system allows anyone to write and edit articles without revision, but will in the future require articles about people and certain organizations to be checked by an editor before they get published. ...
Moshe explores the meanings of Cyberpsychology. Where do we go with all of this technology and what do we do with it to better understand ourselves and the world around us. " By Rabbi DR. Moshe Dror It seems to me that much of the writing that I read dealing with information...
A few days ago, Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation published an op-ed to the GNU project's website, in which he criticized the copyright views of the Swedish Pirate Party, which had recently...
opinion by raynevandunem | 17 wks ago | updated 2 wks ago 147 views | 0 recommendations | 2 comments
" The battle over Wikipedia's use of images from a British art gallery's website has intensified. The online encyclopaedia has accused the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) of betraying its public service mission. ...
Within the next few months, Wikipedia will get video. Editors will be able to add video elements to articles in the same way they can currently add photos. This also includes a push to get some of the widely-visible videos owned by larger media companies into the public...
"In a talk at Harvard Law School, Stephen Wolfram, a well-known mathematician, scientist and entrepreneur, gave a demonstration of his soon-to-be released Web service which promises to answer all sorts of questions....
opinion by Zachary Gauld | 29 wks ago | updated 29 wks ago 360 views | 22 recommendations | 1 comment
Activist editors at Wikipedia have changed the name of the "World Trade Center Controlled Demolition Hypothesis" page to "World Trade Center Demolition Conspiracy Theories", are removing all links to the paper...
Until Barack and Michelle Obama received so much attention in the press after exchanging one on the campaign trail, I wasn't very familiar with the "fist bump." So I decided to do some research. The Wikipedia...
Techcruch carried an interesting note on how you can create a book by importing wikipedia pages. What is great is that you can create a book on any topic, sort information by chapters and PediaPress takes care of typesetting, printing and shipping. PediaPress allows you to...
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When Senators Ted Kennedy and Robert Byrd collapsed at President Obama's inauguration lunch the internet lit up with people looking for updated news of their health. Wikipedia, a trusted user-generated...
created by Tina Kells | 43 wks ago | updated 43 wks ago 297 views | 30 recommendations | 5 comments