Truemors
is reporting from
Member
NP Rank:
NP Rank:
"Recently the number one search engine, Google, has unveiled to the public Knol, the company's website that allows experts to write, express ideas on their fields of expertise. The main difference between Knol and Wikipedia is the authorship. On Knol the public will have the...
The most popular 50, 000 terms on the German Wikipedia website will be turned into a 750 page book, a German publisher announced last week, at the Wikipedia conference in Alexandria, Egypt."That means France's first...
Wikipedia is considering a basic change to its editing philosophy to cut down on vandalism. In the process, the online encyclopedia anyone can edit would add a layer of hierarchy and eliminate some of the spontaneity that has made the site, at times, an informal source of...
I've been keeping my eye on Wikileaks over the past few months, as a potential source of eyewitness footage and contextual documentation for news stories that we've covered on NowPublic. Although the site maintains...
What happens if you’re a group that doesn’t like the collababorative nature of the internet, particularly sites like Wikipedia, where members keep changing the “truth”? You create your own media of course. In a twist that’s reminiscent of war time propaganda, a...
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 reordered...
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 difficult....
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...
"Das Bertelsmann Lexikon Institut, ein Imprint des Wissen Media Verlags, geht erstaunliche Wege und bringt eine Print-Version der freien Online-Enzyklopädie Wikipedia auf den Markt. Ab September soll das "Wikipedia-Lexikon in einem Band" für 19,95 Euro im Buchhandel...
Last year, I had the opportunity to participate in the experimental 'meta-crowdsourcing' projectAssignment Zero, with Jay Rosen, Wired, and the folks at NewAssignment.net, which undertook to explore all of the ways...
