Wikipedia for Spies: The CIA Discovers Web 2.0
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- Wikipedia for Spies: The CIA Discovers Web 2.0
- Reference librarians: better than Wikipedia
- ‘The Wikipedia Revolution’ by Andrew Lih impresses a skeptic
- Microsoft Encarta Dies After Long Battle With Wikipedia
- Tiny “Smart Car” Spotted At akland Rockridge BART
- USS Bainbridge: Information n US Destroyer Tracking Somali Pirates
Wikipedia for Spies: The CIA Discovers Web 2.0
TIME
It operates in three spheres: unclassified secret and top secret with top secret being the mostactive boasting 439387 pages and 57248 user accounts. Intellipedia is largelymanaged by volunteers and patrolled by “shepherds” who keep track ofindividual pages in their areas of expertise. Like Wikipedia articles arecreated instantly — a page on the Mumbai terrorism attack last November was upwithin minutes of the news breaking — but authorship must be clear; there areno user names to hide behind.
Reference librarians: better than Wikipedia
Kenyon Collegian
substring(0 thispageresult. The little black cursor blinks at the top of endless white space reminding students of the unfinished paper they meant to start earlier in the semester. Although “starting is the hard part” for some students starting is not only hard but excruciating. When work seems impossible the Kenyon reference librarians have some ideas to push students in the right direction. “Kenyon students like to work independently” Director of Information and Resources Joe Murphy said.
‘The Wikipedia Revolution’ by Andrew Lih impresses a skeptic
The Plain Dealer – cleveland.com
If you’ve posted on Flickr or commented on a blog you’re a citizen of wiki-world. And if you’ve run an electronic search lately chances are excellent you’ve come across Wikipedia.
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 Unlike Wikipedia where volunteer editors quickly update popular entries Encarta can be embarrassingly outdated.
Tiny “Smart Car” Spotted At akland Rockridge BART
San Francisco Chronicle
According to various online sources and this rather. That device — a simple monotoned plastic-looking timepiece — was a hit with Valley Girls in the 80s. And that discovery explains why the car looks like well a Swatch.
USS Bainbridge: Information n US Destroyer Tracking Somali Pirates
Huffington Post
From Wikipedia:She was launched on 13 November 2003 at Bath Iron Works Bath Maine sponsored by Susan Bainbridge Hay Commodore William Bainbridge’s great-great-great-granddaughter. She was commissioned on 12 November 2005 with Commander John M. Bainbridge is more than twice as long and displaces 20 times as much tonnage as her namesake a century earlier. She is homeported in Norfolk Virginia.
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