Happy Seventh Birthday Wikipedia!
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- Happy Seventh Birthday Wikipedia!
- Brighton professor bans Google
- Democracy in action?
- Apple’s 2008 Plans Leaked?
- The Race for the American Mind
Happy Seventh Birthday Wikipedia!
RealTechNews – Jan 15, 2008
Today being the day of Steve Jobs’ keynote at Macworld this is going to get missed by many. But not by me: Happy Seventh Birthday Wikipedia (all right I’ll admit it: they emailed me about it). Yep Wikipedia was founded on January 15 2001. In an emailed press release Florence Devouard Chair of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees said:“In a relatively short time Wikipedia has become one of the world’s most successful collaboratively written websites. We have struck a chord with tens of thousands of volunteers worldwide all of whom share our dream of empowering citizens worldwide to share in the sum of all human knowledge.
Brighton professor bans Google
Register – Jan 15, 2008
ne of the great advantages of the internet is that anyone can publish what they know. We could point out that people publish what they think they know regardless of the facts. Few of the inaccurate entries in Wikipedia are deliberate – the authors just believe themselves to be right in what they’re saying. Drawing conclusions from a single media source is never a good idea but if that media source is only fact-checked by the sick the elderly and the under-employed then it should form no more than a suggestion. Wikipedia does accurately.
Democracy in action?
guardian.co.uk – Jan 15, 2008
) It’s a good opportunity to consider the accuracy and dependability of websites. For example is the Wikipedia site (.
Apple’s 2008 Plans Leaked?
Smart House – Jan 15, 2008
The latest is an alleged draft copy of Apple CE Steve Jobs? keynote speech. A purported rough draft of Jobs’ keynote speech which will be delivered in San Francisco on 15th January has been leaked to the wikipedia website. The speech is below but should definitely be taken with a few grains of salt. Time will tell if it’s a genuine draft copy or a fake!Page: [1] 2 3 4 | Next Page Return to site Email this story to a friend Link this story:.
The Race for the American Mind
americandaily.com – Jan 15, 2008
Then there’s Jewish historian Arno Lustiger who filed a lawsuit in Germany against Vanity Fair magazine because it published an interview with a neo-Nazi. While the stout-hearted Mark Steyn won’t end up cooling his heels or capitulating the same cannot be said of everyone. Wikipedia caved quickly and altered its content and although we can expect greater fortitude from more professional operations the implications are ominous. As such investigations charges and lawsuits become more prevalent and start to stick the media will be increasingly gun shy about publishing politically incorrect views. Fewer and fewer will deviate from the new Tass line until news and commentary are banal barren and bereft of truth. Surely though some of the millions of blogs and other Internet sources would not be cowed and it would be hard to arrest every one of their operators. But the government won’t have to.
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