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I’m not alluding to products that target impairments, like the iPhone app for combating dementia. Rather, I mean commonplace software that people use to make recall less taxing, more extensive, or easier to visualize. For instance, Wikipedia’s...
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Now, I'll freely admit that there are other places out there (such as RealClearPolitics and Wikipedia, among others) that use different metrics for determining who stands where in the primary campaign - Wikipedia, notably, includes the RNC "party...
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COMMERCIAL IMAGE - In this photograph taken by AP Images for Hult International Business School, Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, speaks at Hult International Business School's Executive Speaker Series in San Francisco, CA on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012. View Photo »
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Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor, it must be demanded by the oppressed, MLK. On Wednesday, Wikipedia demands
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For instance, Wikipedia’s anti-SOPA protest made 162 million users, accustomed to turning to the site for those idle questions that crop up every day, feel absent-minded. Nobody messed with my hippocampus or your prefrontal cortex. Rather, Wikipedia’s...
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"Qorvis.com enterprise behind #Bahrain crimes, and how they've manipulated Wikipedia #Anonymous #OWS" read the AnonymousIRC Twitter account's tweet. "There is a lengthy page of Wikipedia edits for an unnamed user with the IP 38.100.14.250. The IP...
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Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia gestures during an interview with the Associated Press at the World Economic Forum, WEF, in Davos, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012. Wales is fighting to stop a recent US plan to tighten anti-piracy laws and his vision for the... View Photo »
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This is certainly not going to help but the US anti-piracy law is like a censorship. The United States is trying to control the media. In Canada, there are large numbers of Wikipedia readers but closing the website for 24 hours will hardly have impact on the movement against the law
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It was sort of like the Newlywed Game, featuring married couples. Carson would pose questions, and the contestants would have to decide whether to answer personally or trust their spouse to answer. Or so Wikipedia says the show was off the air before...
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It makes litte sense to those who know what they are doing" Warren Buffet Bros/madam,let's start by explaining things here. Tribalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Social stigma - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Excerpt from the social stigma...
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Wikipedia (pronunciation ) is a free, multilingual, open content encyclopedia project operated by the United States-based non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its name is a portmanteau of the words wiki (a technology for creating collaborative websites) and encyclopedia. Launched in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, it is currently the largest,... Full Article
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The webpage of the encyclopedia website Wikipedia shows a stark black-and-white page with the message: "Imagine a world without free knowledge", at an office in Brussels, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012. The shutdown of one of the Internet's most-visited sites is not sitting well with some of...
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LONDON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 18: A laptop computer displays Wikipedia's front page showing a darkened logo on January 18, 2012 in London, England. The Wikipedia website has shut down it's English language service for 24 hours in protest over the US anti-piracy laws.
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Wikipedia webpage in use on a laptop computer is seen in this photo illustration taken in Washington, January 17, 2012. Wikipedia, the popular community-edited online encyclopedia, will black out its English-language site for 24 hours to seek support against proposed U.S. anti-piracy...
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LONDON - NOVEMBER 01: Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia speaks during the opening session at the London Cyberspace Conference on November 01, 2011 in London, England. The conference, which is being attended by representatives of 60 nations, is due to address rising levels of cybercrime...
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Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia speaks during the opening session at the London Cyberspace Conference in London, Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2011.
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An empty collaboration space in shown inside the offices of the Wikipedia Foundation in San Francisco, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012. January 18 is a date that will live in ignorance, as Wikipedia started a 24-hour blackout of its English-language articles, joining other sites in a protest...
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Josh Van Davier looks at a projected blackout landing page inside the "Anti-Sopa War Room" at the offices of the Wikipedia Foundation in San Francisco, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012. January 18 is a date that will live in ignorance, as Wikipedia started a 24-hour blackout of its...
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JERUSALEM, ISRAEL - JUNE 21: Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales sits during during a plenary session at the President's Conference June 21, 2011 in Jerusalem, Israel. Shakira, a UN Goodwill Ambassador, kicked off the conference promoting childrens Education.
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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, attends the eG8 forum in Paris, May 24, 2011. The eG8 forum gathered "leaders of the Internet" to consider and discuss the future of the Internet and society.
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NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 26: Keynote speaker Clayton Christensen, Jane Rose, Wikipedia creator Jimmy Wales, Stanford University's Paul Romer, Craig Hatkoff and Tribeca's Jennifer Maguire Isham attend the Disruptive Innovation Awards at The 2011 Tribeca Film Festival at Citibank Building On...
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NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 26: Jane Rose, Wikipedia creator Jimmy Wales, Paul Romer of Stanford University and Dr. Kenneth Gabriel of DARPA: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency attend the Disruptive Innovation Awards at The 2011 Tribeca Film Festival at Citibank Building On Greenwich on...
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NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 26: Wikipedia creator Jimmy Wales speaks at the Disruptive Innovation Awards at The 2011 Tribeca Film Festival at Citibank Building On Greenwich on April 25, 2011 in New York City.
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