Hammering out Wikipedia’s future
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- How Wolfram Alpha Compares to Google Wikipedia
- Artist Michael D’Antuono Responds To ‘Truth’ Critics With Second …
Hammering out Wikipedia’s future
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com News Corp Microsoft andGoogle. Except for No 7: Wikipedia. And there lies a delicatesituation. With 2 million articles in English alone the internet encyclopedia”anyone can edit” stormed the web’s top ranks through the work ofunpaid volunteers and the assistance of donors. But that givesWikipedia far less financial clout than its web peers and doingalmost anything to improve that situation invites scrutiny from thesame community that proudly generates the content. And so much as how its base of editors and bureaucratsendlessly debate touchy articles and other changes to the siteWikipedia’s community churns with questions over how the nonprofitWikimedia Foundation which oversees the project should get andspend its money.
Track Your Wikipedia Pages with Wiki Alarm
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The quote originally posted on Jarre’s Wikipedia page wound up in blogs and publications around the world. Fitzgerald says this was done to teach journalists the importance of double checking the facts listed in Wikipedia before publishing them. Maybe some of these writers would have been hip to the hoax if they had used.
Lies damn lies and Wikipedia
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So he set out to prove just how untrustworthy it is. Immediately after hearing the breaking news of the death of film composer Maurice Jarre on March 28 Fitzgerald flew to Wikipedia the free online encyclopedia in which facts are tended by whomever uses the site. Fitzgerald wasn’t interested in vandalizing the Jarre biography page with outrageous information and lies. That would be too obvious.
Duck Duck Go search engine: the anti-Google
Examiner.com
Duck Duck Go promises relevant searches in as few clicks as possible. Google’s focus on the other hand is content discoverability and provides long lists of results. Duck Duck Go primarily uses Wikipedia as an official first page. If Wikipedia is a first result a Wikipedia definition is featured at the top of a page with related topics. I tested both search engines by typing in the words "Social Media". Duck Duck Go’s page featured a definition from Wikipedia and 6 links which included a video. Google’s first page included two sponsored linksand 13 additional links which also included videos.
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2009 Goodguys Get-Together headed for Alameda Co. Fairgrounds May …
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Now it’s very common for me to get things wrong. For example for years I thought that Alaska Airlines had a picture of Abraham Lincoln on its tail not an Eskimo. I am now aware that the Goodguys Rod & Custom Association has nothing to do the defunct retailer and N I didn’t just learn that on. Coming up at the end of the month the sixteenth annual Summer Get-Together will be held at Pleasanton’s Alameda County Fairgrounds. Be there or be clueless like me.
How Wolfram Alpha Compares to Google Wikipedia
PC Magazine
asp” >Wikipedia as a research tool. Technically it straddles the two as well: while Google’s automated search algorithms crawl tens of millions of Web sites aggregating data Wikipedia is a human-driven effort crowdsourced information that is vetted and edited by others. Wolfram Alpha meanwhile uses a small army of dedicated experts to add evaluate judge and parse data. In fact it wouldn’t surprise Wolfram co-founder Theodore Gray if Google has learned some lessons from the way Wolfram treats data; Google co-founder Sergey Brin was a summer intern many years ago Gray said in an interview. “It should give them perspective on whether they should pay attention to us or not” Gray said of Google. What is Wolfram Alpha? Dubbing it the world’s best online almanac is a good start.
Artist Michael D’Antuono Responds To ‘Truth’ Critics With Second …
PR Newswire (press release)
With his latest painting he is challenging the media to be less partisan in its reporting and the viewer to be more discerning between fact and opinion. D’Antuono’s painting “The Truth” gained international attention on television radio and especially the internet. It became the most emailed photo on Yahoo! and wound up on Wikipedia until an offended party had it removed. The artist feels that his point was proven by the diverse reaction to the piece and by the divisive nature in which both the right and left wing media covered “The Truth” in an effort to provoke and mobilize their respective audiences. What do you think? Michael D’Antuono continues to invite others’ opinions through his website:.
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