edited - recently published headlines NowPublic

UBC professor grades students on Wikipedia status

A UBC professor is embracing Wikipedia as a platform for academic publication. More universities should be taking this approach. ""VANCOUVER, Canada (AFP) - Wikipedia, the upstart Internet encyclopedia...

created by mtippett | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
1101 views | 5 recommendations | 5 comments

Jordan Yerman

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...

created by Jordan Yerman | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
450 views | 15 recommendations | 2 comments

BullsEyesOrg

PETA Skins Olsen Twins

Leave to the PETA provocateurs to use web 2.0 guerrila tactics for a hilariously subversive purpose. The latest iteration of their anti-fur-wearing-celebrity campaigns employs social media and networking sites to...

created by Jarrett Martineau | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
1055 views | 0 recommendations | 3 comments

Now Publick - Citizen Journalism 300 years ago

The folks at AP sent us an email the other day:"Take a look at this description of one of the first newspapers in America: =========================== The paper was 4 pages long. “The first three pages contained two columns of news…; the fourth page was blank, so...

created by mtippett | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
435 views | 5 recommendations | 2 comments

Algorithm Rates Trustworthiness of Wikipedia Pages

"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 | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
519 views | 10 recommendations | 3 comments

ricknight

More Wikipedia Shenanegans: Australian addition

Update: According to Wired, the Pentagon is the number-one Wikipedia editor amongst government agencies." A new website, WikiScanner - which traces the digital fingerprints of those who make changes to entries in...

created by Jordan Yerman | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
896 views | 7 recommendations | 3 comments

Pinger - Instant Voice Messaging

"www.pinger.com Pinger is to Voice Messages what IM is to Email We have cell phones, home phones, email, and blackberries. We call, we text, we pin, we IM, we "Conversation." How could there possibly be any more ways of communicating? Do we even need, or better yet, WANT...