Google Announces Google Knol

"Google has announced the launch of Google Knol which appears to be an attempt to take on Wikipedia. Google Knol allows experts to create "authoritative" articles about a particular topic. The web contains an enormous amount of information, and Google has helped to make...

San Francisco: Week of Protests To Close Guantanamo Bay

We'll be covering this as the week progresses. The first main protest is set for Monday night in San Fransisco. "This week, people all over the world celebrated the coming of a new year, a new start. At the...

Emergency Mobile Phone Charger

"This latest model has just hit the UK shores (Nov 07) and now works with all the latest phones, PDA’s, and even has iPod Compatibility. It also gives up to twice as much power as those chargers using a single AA battery so you can chat or listen to your tunes for even...

GK3-Event on the future

By Shaheen Buneri Third Global Knowledge Conference (GK3) that held on 11th-13th December, 2007 in Kualla Lumpur Malaysia was a unique gathering of global visionaries, innovators, practitioners and policy...

7 reasons you should despise the masses

"With every mindless bleat from “if we withdraw from their countries they will leave us alone”, to “Wal-mart sucks!”, the masses betray a stupendous lack of knowledge with regard to the workings of capitalism and human nature."

Reasons to not form political opinions from reading the Internet

"The problem is that no matter how limited a person’s experience, no matter how little they have traveled and how few people from other countries they know, they still have strong opinions. "

Google debuts knowledge project

"Google has kicked off a project to create an authoritative store of information about any and every topic. The search giant has already started inviting people to write about the subject on which they are known to be an expert. Google said it would not act as editor for the...

Google takes on Wikipedia On Its Way to Taking Over The World

"Google is building its own version of the communally-constructed online encyclopedia Wikipedia. The Internet search powerhouse is inviting chosen people to test a free service dubbed 'knol', to indicate a unit of knowledge. 'Our goal is to encourage people who know a...

Saints' Reggie Bush is Out for the Season

"Tuesday, December 11, 2007 By Billy Turner ATLANTA -- A second examination of Reggie Bush's injured left knee by Birmingham orthopedist Dr. James Andrews confirmed the original diagnosis of a torn posterior cruciate ligament and Bush will miss the rest of the season, a...

wikipedia- neutral knowledge provider, or politically colored gazette?

recently (a few days ago) the statement "You can ban kids from listening to rock 'n' roll music, but they're going to do it anyway" was given by wikipedia founder J. Wales. This is slightly provocative....

12-yr-old relies on WoW knowledge to fend off real life moose attack

"This is the kind of story that you know can't be made up, it's just too bizarre. And it's in Norwegian, so I'll just have to take it at face value. Here's the basic rundown: The boy and his sister were taking...

The tragedy at mahavilachchiya E-Village.

"The tragedy at mahavilachchiya E-Village. A well thought out birthday gift for Piribaharan Mahavilachchiya is a village in Anuradhapura, 245 km from Colombo which is surrounded by Vilpattu National Park from three sides and the children of Mahavilachchiya with Founder Mr...

How Smart are Americans?

An article in the NY Post got me to thinking about some other poll results my brother was talking to me about a while back. Unfortunately any conclusions I made from this story from the Post and what my brother...

Over 200 world class ICT speakers will convene in Kuala Lumpur

"Other high profile speakers who will share their in-depth experience and thoughts on various ICT developmental projects that have helped shape the world include: -- The Hon. Thandi Shongwe, Minister, Ministry of Tourism, Environment and Communication, Swaziland -- Mr....

You silly boys: blondes make men act dumb

"WHEN men meet fair-haired women they really do have a “blonde moment”. Scientists have found that their mental performance drops, apparently because they believe they are dealing with someone less...

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