The Wikipedia Conspiracy.
djussila
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The Wikipedia Conspiracy.

 The collective hive mind Wikipedia has been accomplishing what publishers and historians have been doing for years: gathering the sum of human knowledge into one single entity. A convenient total of all of...
  • djussila
created by djussila | 3 days ago | updated 3 days ago
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phewbar.com a new breed of web browsing is unleashed onto the internet.

I make no apologies for this, why? Well I believe in my opinion anyway that news is all about freedom of speech, so here I go, I want to tell you about something new, something that I have created which I would like to share with you all, what is it you ask? Well let me...
created by phewbar | 4 days ago | updated 4 days ago
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Judge puts defamation lawsuit against Wikipedia to the sword

"Although its name sounds positively Orwellian, the Communications Decency Act contains provisions that provide significant protections for websites that post user-generated content. Those provisions have come into play once again, as a judge in New Jersey has exempted...
  • mtippett
  • super editor
highlighted by mtippett | 6 days ago
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Did McCain Plagiarize His Speech on the Georgia Crisis?

"Did McCain Plagiarize His Speech on the Georgia Crisis?"
  • Jen1979
highlighted by Jen1979 | 1 wk ago
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Scrabulous
iglooology
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Wordscraper: Don't Call It Scrabulous! (Now with X-tra Bonus Analysis)

The tale of the tile continues... Scrabulous' developers have re-launched the app with a new look and new rules in order to pull an end-run around Hasbro's takedown order. But will it be enough? So far, it's hard to...
  • jordan
  • super editor
highlighted by jordan | 2 wks ago | updated 2 wks ago
424 views | 4 comments
wikipedia.org
celina.uemura
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Medical Wikipedia in the works

A new project to compile the largest online medical resource is underway. It's based on the same technology used by Wikipedia and is intended to make esoteric medical information widely accessible and easy to...
  • Rob Peters
  • super editor
highlighted by Rob Peters | 3 wks ago | updated 3 wks ago
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Google Launched Knol to Challenge Wikipedia

"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...
  • dimon
  • news wrangler
highlighted by dimon | 3 wks ago
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round and round they go
atomicjeep
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German Wikipedia: NowFossilized

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...
  • julianw
  • super editor
highlighted by julianw | 4 wks ago | updated 4 wks ago
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Wikipedia Tries Approval System to Reduce Vandalism on Pages

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...
  • ryanborja
highlighted by ryanborja | 4 wks ago
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Image c/o Wikileaks
Jarrett Martineau
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Will Wikileaks Revolutionize Journalism?

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...
  • Jarrett Martineau
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highlighted by Jarrett Martineau | 6 wks ago | updated 6 wks ago
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Fed up with Wikipedia? How creating your own encylopedia can backfire

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...
  • the red rocket
created by the red rocket | 7 wks ago
162 views | 3 comments
wikia
Normac D
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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 reordered...
  • Rob Peters
  • super editor
highlighted by Rob Peters | 11 wks ago | updated 11 wks ago
156 views | 2 comments
365Days - Day95
glhotka
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Wikipedia: Information Strangled by Pedantic Geekism

i left this for the, um, fine 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 without a contextual or meaningful explanation...
  • dysamoria
created by dysamoria | 19 wks ago | updated 11 wks ago
348 views | 0 comments
U.S. and A human rights
nike6
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U.S. and A human rights

this was a good start visiting NOWPUBLIC today. flickr: Racist and Homophobic, or Scamming? you can, for instance, try to enter various body parts, or some scene slang into flickr's search engine, and then you will...
  • nike6
created by nike6 | 11 wks ago | updated 11 wks ago
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wikipedia
jerryfletcher
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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 difficult....
  • Rob Peters
  • super editor
highlighted by Rob Peters | 12 wks ago | updated 12 wks ago
407 views | 5 comments

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