The NATO causalities risen in Afghanistan. the dead of these two servicemen were took place when the Afghan defense ministry has announced that security forces will be strengthened this year. " Two ISAF servicemen...
created by Tanweer | 24 wks ago | updated 23 wks ago 193 views | 1 recommendation | 0 comments
President-elect Barack Obama made Hillary Clinton's nomination as Secretary of State contingent on her husband, former President Bill Clinton, revealing contributors to the William J. Clinton Foundation."The world...
Obama Asks Top Moneyfolks to Help Clinton Retire Her Debt " June 24, 2008 ABC News has learned that on a conference call with his national finance team this afternoon, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, asked his...
Headline: CITIZEN-JOURNALISM SITE RELAUNCHES WITH NEW FEATURES"NowPublic.com, a leading Vancouver-based "citizen-journalism" site that allows users from around the world to post their comments, photos and video of news events, has relaunched its website with new features....
created by mtippett | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 248 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
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...
created by jordan | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 432 views | 15 recommendations | 2 comments
The folks at Flickr are hosting a party in San Francisco for the company's fourth birthday on March 15. Since the vast majority of NowPublic contributors are Flickr users, and since most of us aren't lucky...
created by Rob Peters | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 2474 views | 41 recommendations | 54 comments
"CNN is close to expanding its "iReport" user-generated reporting initiative into a separate Web site, MediaWeek wrote Monday.
The new site, to be hosted at iReport.com, will be a repository for user-submitted news content--video, audio, and photos. Visitors can navigate...
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It's fascinating to note that more than half of Obama's donations came from people who were first time contributors. And Obama continues to play to his strengths by encouraging his supporters, especially younger people, to become involved and make contributions online, in...
created by Jarrett Martineau | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 280 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
Collaborative 'knowledge-building' websites, like Wikipedia, rely on users' participation, along with some semblance of community, in order to function effectively. But who contributes to Wikipedia and why? The...
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By Scott Thill, AlterNet. Posted January 17, 2008.
Meet the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act.According to Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif., House Resolution 1955, otherwise known as the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of...
created by worldviews | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 385 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
"Researchers at UCSC developed a tool that measures the trustworthiness of each Wikipedia page. Roughly speaking, the algorithm analyzes the entire 7-year user-editing-history and utilizes the longevity of the content to learn which contributors are the most reliable: If your...
created by AlanEvans | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 507 views | 10 recommendations | 3 comments
Think I'm Crazy? Are those among us waiting and praying for the unthinkable? "The editor of an Arabic daily newspaper published in London said in an interview on Lebanese television that he would dance in...
created by gmony714 | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 380 views | 2 recommendations | 1 comment
It was only a matter of time. Now you too can YouTube your way to fifteen minutes of lonelygirl-proportioned fame and fortune. But only "the most popular and prolific" need apply."YouTube Inc. will start paying...
created by Jarrett Martineau | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 1326 views | 20 recommendations | 3 comments
YouTube is allowing some of its most popular content creators to start earning revenue from videos they post on the site.
"Up
until now there's been a distinction between the content you create and
the content created by YouTube's professional content partners," reads
a...