‘Wikis’ Taking ver the World
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- ‘Wikis’ Taking ver the World
- ‘Virtual sticky note’ on horizon
- Gurkhas hurt in Singapore scuffle
- Mongol: Movie Showtimes and Reviews on washingtonpost.com’s City…
- Some see cloud over City Hall
‘Wikis’ Taking ver the World
AlterNet – Jun 20, 2008
org of course but also Wikiquote Wikisource the Wiktionary Wikinews etc. The purpose is to exchange ideas build relationships and report on projects and research as well as provide opportunities for those wacky wiki-workers to meet the rest of us and share their ideas about free and open source software free knowledge initiatives and the relentless spread of wikis worldwide. In little more than a decade ever since programmer Ward Cunningham developed the first “writeable web page” and dubbed it a “wiki” after riding one of Hawaii’s quick Wiki Wiki buses (”I was going to call it Quickweb” he recalls “and then I remembered these buses I took during a trip to Hawaii and I thought ‘That’s cooler!’”) the wiki phenomenon has exploded into public consciousness growing at an exponential pace rivaled only by well that of Wikipedia itself which adopted and adapted Cunningham’s software to become one of the world’s most visited websites. Created at virtually no cost by volunteers who work collectively using the innovative software that enables anyone to write and edit on a web page Wikipedia. org has experienced such explosive growth that were it a commercial venture the not-for-profit site’s valuation would be well in excess of $1 billion. Cunningham had worked in virtual obscurity for years creating and running his own private wiki (known as the.
‘Virtual sticky note’ on horizon
News & bserver – Jun 20, 2008
“So if someone is standing at the location you are interested in and you need information about that location immediately they can answer you in real-time” Choudhury said. Will people use it?Just because technology allows people to find each other and communicate instantly based on location doesn’t mean they will do it. “Much like Facebook or Wikipedia people have to choose to participate and contribute material” Choudhury said. “And like other social networks there are issues of privacy. “A reality checkThe quality and quantity of posted material also would matter said Roger Entner a telecommunications analyst with Nielsen IAG in New York. “Reality gets in the way of these ideas sometimes” Entner said. “This sounds like an evolutionary idea more than a revolutionary one but I haven’t heard anything like it before.
Gurkhas hurt in Singapore scuffle
Reuters AlertNet – Jun 20, 2008
"Apart from the group which misconducted themselves the rest were not involved in any acts of indiscipline" the police said. Many young Nepalese men aspire to become Gurkhas because they view it as a way out of poverty. It says around 2000 currently serve in Singapore many accompanied by their families. The police said they are investigating the matter as an internal one.
Mongol: Movie Showtimes and Reviews on washingtonpost.com’s City…
Washington Post – Jun 20, 2008
ShowtimesNTE: Showtimes are currently unavailable for this movie Editorial Review Perhaps the most reliable modern empiric gauge of a movie’s effectiveness is this: How fast does it send you to Wikipedia? The faster the better because that means you’ve got to know more. In the case of “Mongol” the answer was: very fast close to a new record. And I learned that “Mongol” while a hell of a good time at the movies in its chronicling of the first 30 years of the man who went from slave to conqueror is more romantic and less squalid than the reality. The result is a wallow in old movie pleasures full of battles flying dust thousands of men on horseback beautiful women treachery slaughter really cool hats and even more slaughter. When the big-budget cast-o’-thousands Russian epic begins Temudjin (played by Japanese heartthrob Tadanobu Asano) as the man who would become Genghis Khan was once known is a 9-year-old kid (the excellent dnyam dsuren) on his way to pick out a bride.
Some see cloud over City Hall
Baltimore Sun – Jun 20, 2008
“Immediately I thought ‘There you go another distraction in Baltimore’ and Baltimore like Detroit doesn’t need any more distractions” says Robin Boyle a professor of urban planning at Wayne State University in Detroit. “When you’re facing a national recession the last thing you want is a bevy of lawyers throwing writs at one another. State prosecutors’ vans filled with boxes and folders had barely pulled away from the mayor’s Hunting Ridge home on Tuesday when someone updated her Wikipedia profile to include the raid. dixon20jun2027048321.
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