Muslims protest online images
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- Muslims protest online images
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- Standing Athwart E-History
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Muslims protest online images
Princeton University The Daily Princeton… – Feb 12, 2008
there is a very strong inclination towards the position that Wikipedia is not censored” Wikipedia spokesman Mark Pellegrini said in an e-mail. Censoring the images would suggest that the view of one interest group is more important than that of another Rosenthal explained. “While we respect their desire to censor depictions of Muhammad” Pellegrini said “it conflicts with our fundamental goal of providing access to the sum of human knowledge. ”Leisten said that the petition to Wikipedia “is missing is a historical perspective” explaining that “the fact that many of these images are from highly pious literatures and that the intent was in no way to ridicule the founder of Islam. ”In addition to the petition Wikipedia has received numerous letters of support from both Muslims and non-Muslims Rosenthal said.
Boosting teamwork with wikis
cnn.com – Feb 12, 2008
In an effort to get his employees to collaborate more effectively owner and chief executive Lee Rosen had decided to put his entire operation on a wiki – with a $1000 cash prize as an incentive to use it. At its simplest a wiki is software that lets users work together to create and edit a collection of linked web pages. The online encyclopedia. Like Wikipedia all wikis benefit from the network effect: The more people who use it the theory goes the better the quality of the information. That’s why all 32 employees at Rosen from the lawyers and "life transition" coaches down to the receptionist and the guy who does the document scanning had been creating as many pages on the wiki as they could… Like Wikipedia all wikis benefit from the network effect: The more people who use it the theory goes the better the quality of the information. That’s why all 32 employees at Rosen from the lawyers and "life transition" coaches down to the receptionist and the guy who does the document scanning had been creating as many pages on the wiki as they could. For each page created they earned one new possible combination to the company safe. After three months they gathered in the conference room to see who had won the correct combination and the cash inside. Long-Term BenefitsAlthough $1000 poorer after the payout to Sutton Rosen 46 felt like a winner.
Standing Athwart E-History
New York Sun – Feb 12, 2008
Yet the passenger who conveniently purchased his ticket online is often dismayed to find that he has no reliable advocate to intervene with the airline when his flight is suddenly cancelled. So too our culture’s embrace of the everyman critic risks leaving us bereft of standards for measuring the quality of music art and literature aside from the popularity demonstrated by page hits or Amazon rankings. As the example of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia shows amateur insights offer us enormous convenience and heterogeneity of opinion; but these often come at the expense of reliability and objectivity. Enthusiasts of Wikipedia claim they are “democratizing knowledge. Siegel argues that in fact their work is an example of the broad confusion of information with knowledge a confusion that characterizes much of online culture… So too our culture’s embrace of the everyman critic risks leaving us bereft of standards for measuring the quality of music art and literature aside from the popularity demonstrated by page hits or Amazon rankings. As the example of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia shows amateur insights offer us enormous convenience and heterogeneity of opinion; but these often come at the expense of reliability and objectivity. Enthusiasts of Wikipedia claim they are “democratizing knowledge. Siegel argues that in fact their work is an example of the broad confusion of information with knowledge a confusion that characterizes much of online culture. Siegel finds little to savor in the melee of self-expression fostered by the participatory Web often called Web 2.
Comments on ‘Europe hails foothold in space’
Register – Feb 12, 2008
Now we can probably add a few years to that but it still means the whole thing is just eating taxpayers money. Why can’t they keep the darn thing up there ‘forever’ – just replacing bits as they become unreliable or obsolete? Isn’t that the whole point of modular building?After all my grandmother’s broom has been in the family for generations.
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