Microsoft Encarta Dies After Long Battle With Wikipedia
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- Microsoft Encarta Dies After Long Battle With Wikipedia
- Enter Britannica
- Google Chrome Is Fastest Browser in Site-Loading Tests
- Has the UK gone too far in social media education?
- Wikipedia: Use it wisely or don’t use it all
- Newspaper ‘reveals’ Top Gear’s Stig
Microsoft Encarta Dies After Long Battle With Wikipedia
New York Times
In January Wikipedia got 97 percent of the visits that Web surfers in the United States made to online encyclopedias according to the Internet ratings service Hitwise. Encarta was second with 1. Unlike Wikipedia where volunteer editors quickly update popular entries Encarta can be embarrassingly outdated.
Enter Britannica
Boston Globe
It’s a bid by Britannica to remain relevant at a time when the world’s most popular encyclopedia the eight-year-old website Wikipedia is written entirely by amateur experts. The new version of Britannica nline set to debut this summer will emulate the Wikipedia concept by letting subscribers make changes to any article ranging from minor edits to near-total rewrites. But Britannica president Jorge Cauz scoffs at the idea that he’s merely imitating his giant online rival. “I don’t believe it’s accurate to say that Britannica and Wikipedia are becoming more similar” he said. While Wikipedia is written and edited by amateurs who often work anonymously Britannica nline articles will be overseen by professional editors.
Google Chrome Is Fastest Browser in Site-Loading Tests
PC World
12 seconds for each of the test sites. Detailed test results for each browser appear in the accompanying table. We saw the most significant difference in page load times with the. Chrome 2 Beta completed the job of loading Wikipedia in a mere 1. 12 seconds easily outpacing the competition.
Related from Ubuntunews: How did we rediscover competition in Web browsers?
Has the UK gone too far in social media education?
ZDNet
At first blush this doesn’t seem like a bad thing right? 21st Century Skills don’t mean social media but they do mean learning to collaborate in new and useful ways with direct application to communication in a global economy. According to The Guardian …the draft plans will require children to master Twitter and Wikipedia and give teachers far more freedom to decide what youngsters should be concentrating on in classes…The proposals would require children to leave primary school familiar with blogging podcasts Wikipedia and Twitter as sources of information and forms of communication. Again this doesn’t seem like a bad foundation in technology for primary school children to take to the next level of education. That assumes of course that the curriculum include sufficient emphasis on the appropriate use of Wikipedia (e. as a starting point for research taken with a dose of skepticism and a desire to dig beyond its pages) and safe uses of Twitter-like tools (instead of simply teaching kids to use Twitter which is hardly rocket science).
Wikipedia: Use it wisely or don’t use it all
Diamondback nline
substring(0 thispageresult. Recently a judge in Florida had to declare a mistrial when he discovered that eight jurors had violated his explicit instructions and used their iPhones to do searches on Wikipedia about the case. ne juror when asked why he had done so replied that he was curious. I suppose it is good that curiosity prompted jurors to do their own research. But it is a major problem when jurors fail to understand that such initiative undermines the rules of evidence which have evolved over centuries of jurisprudence.
Newspaper ‘reveals’ Top Gear’s Stig
Calgary Herald
com A British newspaper has laid claim to solving one of the Internet’s great riddles ? the identity of Top Gear’s “tame racing driver. “A report from Britain’s Daily Telegraph says the motoring show’s test driver has been unmasked for the first time as professional stuntman and Le Mans race driver Ben Collins. Ben Collins however has been listed on Wikipedia for some time as a driver for Top Gear a weekly hour-long BBC program known as one of the world’s most popular motoring shows. The Daily Telegraph reports: “For years the identity of The Stig has been a closely guarded secret but Collins ? who has previously competed in Formula Three Le Mans GT and NASCAR ? has apparently outed himself to staff at a Bristol gallery. “Wikipedia however long ago noted that Collins has played a key role in the show. Wikipedia notes: In 2004 Ben Collins made an appearance during the fourth season of BBC Top Gear alongside skydiving parachutist Tim Carter. The stunt involved Carter and an aerial cameraman jumping out of a Cessna light aircraft then landing in the open-topped Mercedes car being driven at speed by Collins.
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