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Conservatives hate Obama more than they love the USA
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... Wikipedia Colour Codes Content To Gauge Trustworthiness
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... Wikipedia grows up, changes editorial policy
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...
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Wikipedia Launches Page Controls To Check Facts
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. ... Cyber Or-25 Cyberpsychology-1
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... Stallman, the Swedish Pirate Party, and copyleft
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 succeeded in its endeavor to get a seat in Brussels' European... 124 views | 0 recommendations | 2 comments
Wikipedia painting row escalates
" 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. ... Wikipedia to Get Video Soon
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... Wolfram Alpha - Interesting competition for Google and Wikipedia?
"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.... 358 views | 22 recommendations | 1 comment
Activist Editors at Wikipedia Censor 'Active Thermitic Material'
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... 1395 views | 31 recommendations | 26 comments
Taxpayers Being 'Fist Bumped' by Democrats
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... PediaPress | Print Your Favorite Wikipedia Articles As Books
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... Wikipedia Ponders Editorial Reviews After Kennedy Death Post
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... India launches Agricultural Wikipedia
Scientists in India have launched an Agricultural Wikipedia, which will act as an online database of agricultural information in the country. It goes by the name of Agropedia. It provides crop and region... 73.4 Percent of Wikipedia Edits Made By Roughly 1,400 People
"There are millions of people who browse Wikipedia in any given month, but only 2 percent of them (roughly 1,400) are responsible for editing nearly 75 percent of the information on the entire website." full story google
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