Deadpan Debate: Can you trust the Wiki?
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- Deadpan Debate: Can you trust the Wiki?
- Scientology inspires activism
- Parent power pulls Woolworth’s ‘Lolita’ kiddies’ bed
- comScore Releases US Internet Year in Review
- Advanced Google: search faster find more: save time and effort with…
- Yahoos New Chairman No Stranger to a Sale – Mergers Acquisitions…
- Lessig gives up on Free Culture
Deadpan Debate: Can you trust the Wiki?
Daily – University of Washington – Feb 1, 2008
? r that in the process of carbonic maceration which is used to produce Beaujolais wine fermentation takes place inside the individual grape berry?f course you didn?t you idiot. That?s why you should thank your lucky stars for Wikipedia the online encyclopedia that not only sports thousands of articles on useful information but also on things you didn?t think existed or was even important enough to know. Talk about information overload. ne minute you?re looking up the cultural background of some random province in Spain and the next thing you know the entire episode history of Rescue Rangers is staring back at you in all its glory. That is what makes Wikipedia not only useful in our quest to impress our friends and strangers with useless information but also in our often desperate and pathetic attempts to write research papers. Let?s get serious for a minute… Talk about information overload. ne minute you?re looking up the cultural background of some random province in Spain and the next thing you know the entire episode history of Rescue Rangers is staring back at you in all its glory. That is what makes Wikipedia not only useful in our quest to impress our friends and strangers with useless information but also in our often desperate and pathetic attempts to write research papers. Let?s get serious for a minute. Wikipedia is a godsend for anyone who needs to find research fast. Before the introduction of Wikipedia you had to sign into multiple servers and Web sites and then scroll through thousands of articles and text that usually contained far too many numbers and multisyllabic words. But now you throw a keyword into the Wikipedia search engine and ? bam ? everything you can possibly think of is right there waiting to be copied and pasted for your convenience.
Scientology inspires activism
Clemson Tiger News – Feb 1, 2008
You know the one with all the cool toys and video games. Heck Scientology even has some nice refreshing glasses of Kool-Aid for you to drink. He’s awesome! Anyway according to the Wikipedia article on Scientology Scientology was founded in 1952 by L.
Parent power pulls Woolworth’s ‘Lolita’ kiddies’ bed
Register – Feb 1, 2008
In this case it was irate customer demands which provoked a response and while the debate raged down at Raisingkids Woolworths pulled the offending bed from its website. A press officer subsequently called Raisingkids to explain: “This was one product sold online and in the Big Red Book [paper catalogue] and quite naturally the people who arranged it had no idea about that word. They’d never heard of the word and in fact neither had I. I had to go on to Wikipedia to find out the meaning of the word.
comScore Releases US Internet Year in Review
Media Buyer Planner – Feb 1, 2008
internet activity in 2007 including top gaining properties and site categories and core search market growth. Top internet brands including… com reaped the benefits of opening registration to all users jumping 81 percent versus December 2006 to 34. 7 million visitors in December 2007. Wikipedia Sites gained 34 percent to reach nearly 52 million visitors continuing its reign as the Web’s most popular reference hub. Leading classifieds site Craigslist. org jumped 74 percent to 24. 5 million visitors. AT&T grew 27 percent to 30.
Advanced Google: search faster find more: save time and effort with…
Free with registration – PC World – AccessMyLibrary.com – Feb 1, 2008
Narrow Your Search Looking for pages that mention Albert Einstein? (Who isn’t?) If you simply enter Albert Einstein in the search field you’ll pull up a trove of Einsteiniana starting with photos biographies official archive sites and extensive Wikipedia articles. In short it’s more than you can deal with. To narrow your search add terms; Google accepts up to ten. Searching for ‘Albert Einstein Swiss patent clerk relativity’ yields lots of pages detailing how the.
Yahoos New Chairman No Stranger to a Sale – Mergers Acquisitions…
nytimes.com – Feb 1, 2008
But nothing much further has gone on between those companies. Yahoo I hear even dropped Photos which was one of their services that worked on TIV. When Yahoo announced their partnership with Wikipedia I expected to see more good things…. Nothing really fruitful yet has come from that either. I’ve also come to watch competitors buy-out key stuff that Yahoo let slip by. MySpace’s parent company went to Fox. Facebook has gone to Micro$oft.
Lessig gives up on Free Culture
Register – Feb 1, 2008
After all he set out to alter the copyrights used by the mainstream. These copyrights tend to cover works that people actually want rather than the flood of cruft bundled under the Creative Commons. In addition Lessig has an uncomfortable tendency of linking his copyright efforts with techno-utopian projects like Wikipedia. We can all share information just like we share culture right? Well not when the information sharing source is.
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