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Sarah Palin: Internet Sensation
"The internet is buzzing with news about John McCain’s VP pick, Sarah Palin. Bloggers are struggling to figure out who the Alaskan governor really is. Twitter user Eamon 1916 claims that, “Sarah Palin taught MacGuyver [sic] everything he knows.” Twitter...
Ubiquity Rocks Tweeter's World
Thanks to a quick Summize search, I've been exposed to the world of Ubiquity. It is currently the number one trending topic on twitter and averages about 4 tweets per second. More people are tweeting about Ubiquity... 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... 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... 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...Did McCain Plagiarize His Speech on the Georgia Crisis?
"Did McCain Plagiarize His Speech on the Georgia Crisis?" 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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...
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