Carnalpedia - Wiki encyclopedia for porn is launched

Now there is a wikipedia for pornography too. Named as Carnalpedia this is a "free, peer-editable adult graphic encyclopedia about sex" as described in the homepage .Carnalpedia is compliant with RTA Labels that...

Obama Wiki White House?

Dan Froomkin proposes ideas for how the Obama White House can live up to Obama's pledge to be transparent and responsive to the American people; make whitehouse.gov include staffer blogging about policy issues and what they're working on, enable RSS feeds, twitter and email...

Online mashups map relief for Gustav victims

Some interesting new developments in the way the people are responding to Gustav."This map contains an aggregation from several user-contributed and official sources of shelters, evacuation centers, and weather...

Hurricane Gustav: Live Updates & Online Resources

The following is NowPublic's compendium of real-time updates, resources, and information on Hurricane Gustav, as of September 1, 2008. Our coverage is ongoing and these links will continue to be updated. If...

Wikia launches hackable search engine

Wikia is launching a crowd-powered search engine that can be modified by the masses. Unlike Google, whose hidden machinations keep the order of search results largely mysterious, Wiki search results can be...

Wiki growing pains: mo' money mo' problems

Wikipedia finds itself in an enviable position, one of increasing success. But finding a business plan that balances the company's enormous potential for growth with its non-profit independence is proving...

Create the Perfect Presidential Candidate with Wiki

Create the Perfect Presidential Candidate with WikiWhat do you want in a presidential candidate?  Does the present slate of candidates lack all of your needs as a part of the electorate?  Well create...

Wikipedia: Information Strangled by Pedantic Geekism

[EDITED & formatting fixed] i left the following comments for the folks at Wikipedia just a few minutes ago. As with most attempts to interact with the people who "admin" that thing, i expect it to vanish...

NZ Tries Out a Wiki-Law

New Zealand police have launched an online tool that will enable users to collaboratively suggest the wording of a new police act -- check it out at http://wiki.policeact.govt.nz/."New Zealanders have been given the chance to write their own laws, with a new online tool...

Google Wiki Prepares To Launch

"Google may finally be preparing to re-launch wiki service Jotspot, nearly a year after it acquired the company."

Uncle Rupert Edits Wiki.

More shenanigans with wikipedia. This time one of Uncle Ruperts Newscorp lackys edits huge chunks of wikipedia. The Second Part of the story covers how Political journalists should handle confidential sources. A...

Who will edit Wiki's editors?

"Anyone with the inclination can alter entries on the online encyclopedia, but a scanner that can track who's making changes could curb the practice, writes Katie Hafner. Last year someone edited the Wikipedia entry for the SeaWorld theme parks in the United States to change...

iPhone Hackers close to cracking iPhone

A wiki to explore "finding additional uses for the iPhone by (legitimately) enabling its potential capabilities" maybe close to "hacking" the technology behind Apple's iPhone. If true this might mean that anybody...

Social Media Helps Hotel Operators Increase Profitability

"Atlanta - Hotel operators gets aid in increasing their profitability through the Social Media primer that Julie Keyser-Squires, vice president of Softscribe Inc., is offering."

So what will the news itself be like in the future

"The Shape of Stories After initial completion, each story could take the shape of a tightly controlled wiki. Each edit to the story wiki would go through either a trusted freelance community editor or a paid editor from NNR. Stories would live online in an initially reported...

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