Wikipedia rejects Corey entry
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- Wikipedia rejects Corey entry
- Wikipedia celebrates seventh birthday
- How many Filipinos are really in the US?
- Blog backfires
- Young star Brad Renfro dies at 25
- “Against the Machine” Lee Siegel Internet culture blogs…
Wikipedia rejects Corey entry
NEWS.com.au – Jan 16, 2008
article-tools –> By Andrew Ramadge Technology Reporter January 16 2008 02:30pm MELBURNE teenager and infamous “party boy” Corey has managed to ruffle a new set of feathers without even lifting a finger. A heated debate among the contributors of Wikipedia took place this morning over whether or not the 16-year-old wild child deserved his own entry on the website. "He’s a d***head kid. We don’t write articles about every d***head kid even the ones who have been on ACA (A Current Affair)" wrote one user who voted that the entry be deleted. Corey threw a wild party while his parents were on holiday spun out of control and resulted in damage to cars and neighbouring houses.
Wikipedia celebrates seventh birthday
Information World Review – Jan 16, 2008
Since its inception in 2001 Wikipedia has become one of the top 10 mostvisited sites on the internet. The site currently has over nine million pages of information written in over250 languages covering the gamut of human knowledge and supposition. "In a relatively short time Wikipedia has become one of the world’s mostsuccessful collaboratively written websites" said Florence Devouard chairmanof the. "We have struck a chord with tens of thousands of volunteers worldwide allof whom share our dream of empowering citizens worldwide to share in the sum ofall human knowledge.
How many Filipinos are really in the US?
Inquirer.net – Jan 16, 2008
3 million Filipinos who live in the United States according to the census bureau (356378 in the Bay Area)”. In a news conference in Manila last month US Ambassador to the Philippines Kristie Kenney estimated that there are 3 million Filipinos in the US according to the US Embassy’s review of the number of US immigrant and non-immigrant visas issued to Filipinos. Three million? The most recent online Wikipedia encyclopedia entry on “Filipino Americans” reported that “in 2007 the Filipino American population numbered approximately 4 million or 1. 5% of the United States population. Just exactly how many are we?The 2000 census that the San Francisco Chronicle relied on was defective and grossly undercounted the number of Filipinos in the US. ver the last 7 years I have spoken with hundreds if not thousands of Filipino “overstaying tourists” (a more apt and polite description than “undocumented aliens” or “illegal immigrants” or “TNTs”) and not one of them who was present in 2000 ever contacted the US Census Bureau to fill out the form that would document his or her presence in the US. If there were 500000 of them in 2000 the 2000 census should have been 3 million… By 1910 all had returned back to play major roles in education business and government. A tiny ripple may have caused a major wave. According to Wikipedia “a chance encounter in 1901 between a trustee of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association (HSPA) and a band of Filipino musicians en route to the United States led the planter to speculate about Filipinos as potential plantation workers for he felt that these musicians had a “healthy physique and robust appearance. ” This led that trustee to recommend Filipinos as replacements for the Chinese Japanese and Korean workers who were banned from immigrating to the US in 1906. Aside from the 125000 Filipino workers who comprised the “first wave” there was a also a “third ripple” of Filipinos numbering about 14000 who came to the US to study and who returned back to the Philippines after completing their studies. According to the 1960 US census there were about 69070 Filipinos in Hawaii and another 65459 in California the two states accounting for about 76% of all Filipinos in the US. The West Coast numbered about 146340 Filipinos accounting for about 83% of the total while the East Coast and the South held slightly more than 10000 each and the Mid-West numbered about 8600.
Blog backfires
Bizcommunity.com – Jan 16, 2008
It is named after the Hawaiian word for ?quick?. Wikis are websites that can easily be edited by anyone visiting them. The best example is a giant online encyclopedia (. Now the wiki format is being used by corporations for internal project collaboration information sharing and knowledge management.
Young star Brad Renfro dies at 25
NEWS.com.au – Jan 16, 2008
Renfro served 10 days in jail in May 2006 after pleading no contest to driving while intoxicated and pleading guilty to attempted possession of heroin. The troubled young actor began his film career at the age of 12 with The Client. The Wikipedia website today said of his career: "Renfro was ten when he was discovered by Mali Finn a casting director for Joel Schumacher director of The Client. "He played the title role in the film adapted from a best-selling John Grisham novel opposite Susan Sarandon and Tommy Lee Jones. "Renfro went on to act in other films including 2001’s Ghost World and Bully and 2005’s The Jacket with Keira Knightley and Adrien Brody. "He also played Huck Finn in Tom And Huck movie with Jonathan Taylor Thomas.
“Against the Machine” Lee Siegel Internet culture blogs…
salon.com – Jan 16, 2008
This isn’t to denigrate Siegel’s argument but to suggest its rhetorical pitch — and to question whether he is the right one to make the argument. Certainly there’s no questioning his C. According to Wikipedia (an institution he despises) Siegel has been book critic for the Nation art critic for Slate staff writer for.
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