Wikipedia at a crossroads

The News Review:

- Wikipedia at a crossroads
- f Prophets Pissing and Politicians
- Are We Headed For Jericho?
- Wikimedia Foundation Takes In $500000 Gift
- The Austin Chronicle: Search Results
- Parental guidance on video games
- Playing computer games has been only a benefit to me

Wikipedia at a crossroads
Mail Tribune – Mar 28, 2008
to San Francisco above. Selling ad space on its Wikipedia Web site would be “threatening to Wikipedia’s neutrality” a contributor said.

f Prophets Pissing and Politicians
Austin Chronicle – Mar 28, 2008
5: “We supported Zionism shamelessly while ignoring the Palestinians and branding anybody who spoke out against it as being anti-Semitic. ” Some would say yes some no and the Anti-Defamation League says Wright is not anti-Semitic (from Wikipedia’s entry on JeremiahWright.

Are We Headed For Jericho?
VDARE.com – Mar 28, 2008
Bush administration put the. continuityofgovernment. Their implementation involves a rotating staff of 75 to 150 senior officials and other government workers from every Cabinet department and other parts of the executive branch in two.

Wikimedia Foundation Takes In $500000 Gift
WebProNews – Mar 28, 2008
Sue Gardner the Wikimedia Foundation’s executive director explained "Vinod and Neeru share the Wikimedia Foundation’s vision: a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Today they have moved us closer to making that vision a reality. "They also may have moved Wikipedia and Jimmy Wales a little further from suspicion. There’s been talk of traded favors recently and Wales’s personal life and spending habits have been scrutinized. A $500000 gift is quite a vote of confidence. Assuming anyway that the $500000 isn’t itself one of those sources of trouble.

The Austin Chronicle: Search Results
Austin Chronicle – Mar 28, 2008
5: “We supported Zionism shamelessly while ignoring the Palestinians and branding anybody who spoke out against it as being anti-Semitic. ” Some would say yes some no and the Anti-Defamation League says Wright is not anti-Semitic (from Wikipedia’s entry on JeremiahWright www.

Parental guidance on video games
Times nline – Mar 28, 2008
But despite its optimistic tone it broadly endorses four main concerns: that violent video games can induce violent real-world mimicry; that anonymous internet chat can turn swiftly to amoral internet bullying; that games and net activity alike suck up time that might otherwise be devoted to less sedentary more social activities; and that young children especially struggle to distinguish virtual from real as their frontal cortices develop. It was not part of Dr Byron’s brief to study the notion that parents may have started using the internet as an unpaid childminder. Nor does she presume to remind them that libraries still offer more than Wikipedia and that tennis unlike the PlayStation version involves real exercise. But her plea for parental responsibility is timely – and it applies offline as well.

Playing computer games has been only a benefit to me
Times nline – Mar 28, 2008
I am sure that one of the reasons that I’m in the top mathsset at my school is because I used to spend so much time when I was youngerplaying. In the game Heroes III you have a castle and you have to build upan army — I spent a lot of time sitting at the computer adding up. I also use Wikipedia to help with my homework. I could survive without it Iwould just go to the library but it is really helpful. And I have juststarted to use.

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