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(rev.2) In which I address the question, "Why do you blog?" Full Article at Remembrance in Spacetime
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Okay feeling lazy but this place was great so deserves an entry of its own so will add what Wikipedia has to say: Karlštejn Castle (German: Burg Karlstein, meaning Castle on Carl's stone, Czech: Hrad Karlštejn) is a large Gothic castle founded 1348 AD... Full Article at Travel Blog
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Jimmy Wales, founder of the user-edited online encyclopedia Wikipedia, pauses during an interview with Reuters at the Israeli Presidential Conference in Jerusalem October 21, 2009. View Photo »
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Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales said Friday that the online encyclopedia aspires to be a higher-quality source of information but added that mainstream publications could learn from its disclaimers and community features.
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Do you know that where I'm sitting right now, the population density is 2,787,840 people per square mile? And here are two other numbers (from Wikipedia) that you shouldn't believe: The population density of Manhattan is 71,201/sq mi. Full Article at New Geography
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When you hear an electric guitar, it's almost always distorted. Full Article at kuro5hin.org
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"OpenMoko's WikiReader is a unique gadget with a single function. The simple handheld device stores the text of over 3 million Wikipedia entries, enabling convenient offline access to the popular Internet encyclopedia. Full Article at Internet.com
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Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, speaks at the 'Facing Tomorrow' conference in Jerusalem, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009. The global conference opened in Jerusalem on Tuesday. View Photo »
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Wikimedia has always had access to our server traffic logs, which report an astonishing amount of daily traffic – currently about 95 to 100 thousand requests per second. comScore Media Metrix provides something we can’t – recognized, industry standard, global measurement that helps us understand project...
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When you first meet Cleber Santana you wonder why he isn't a Hollywood film star, instead of a player in a struggling Atletico Madrid side. His broody good looks and tall muscular frame mark him out as the classic modern day footballer. Full Article at Goal.com
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Volkswagen Commercial featuring King Kong (1972), animated by David W. Allen From Wikipedia: Allen's ground-breaking model animation opus contribution was a legendary Volkswagen commercial made in 1972 in which King Kong spots a giant version of the... Full Article at Bully's Comics
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Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales said Friday that the online encyclopedia aspires to be a higher-quality source of information but added that mainstream publications could learn from its disclaimers and community features.
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Wikimedia has always had access to our server traffic logs, which report an astonishing amount of daily traffic – currently about 95 to 100 thousand requests per second. comScore Media Metrix provides something we can’t – recognized, industry standard, global measurement that helps us understand project...
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Interesting... this site lumped Wikipedia in as a social media site. While I would argue that, while from a strictly techie pov it is one, Wikipedia is fundamentally and qualitatively different than MySpace or Facebook. Removing Wikipedia takes social media sites down to 9%.
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Whether or not managers, leaders, or politicians even know the difference between Wikipedia, Facebook, or Twitter, they need to begin learning how to monitor and respond quickly to trends in these social media communities
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Wikipedia formatted for your Android phone. With Quickpedia, you can do most of what you already do on Wikipedia: search, browse articles, featured pages, and current events. Plus, Quickpedia can find Wikipedia articles near your current GPS position!
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Wikipedia formatted for your Android phone. With Quickpedia, you can do most of what you already do on Wikipedia: search, browse articles, featured pages, and current events. Plus, Quickpedia can find Wikipedia articles near your current GPS position!
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Man alive, I’m been here three hours, and all I’ve been doing is looking up old Ric Flair promos on YouTube, and then doing the related Wikipedia shuffle. I went from looking up Starrcade to the concept of sovereignty in just a few clicks! And I have articles to write, (and Dream 12 to watch)!
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Books are just devices. Wikipedia is the new Britannica
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Alterations were made to the Wikipedia page on Edward McMillan-Scott, the Tory MEP who raised concerns about Kaminski, and was then expelled from the party
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It’s been a year since China’s government lifted its ban on the Chinese version of U.S.-based Wikipedia yet it remains unclear whether Wikipedia has gained any share of the country’s massive Internet readership.
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I think I am going to have to come to China a lot and do interviews so people can learn about Wikipedia ... Once people come to understand it that will be helpful for our cause.
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Because there is Hudong here in China. Of course we are a copycat of Wikipedia but we have a lot of innovations, and we do a lot of work here in China so it is totally different actually
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We're not sitting home in front of our televisions anymore. In the age of Wikipedia, we're all putting content out there for others to use. How can theatre capitalize on this phenomenon?
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Paper background and logo courtesy of Google Images. Signature courtesy of the Robert Mugabe page on Wikipedia. Address courtesy of Google Maps. Content courtesy of being ripped off by McDonald's several times.
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While looking at an old league table on Wikipedia (don't ask why), I noticed that Arsenal finished second in the First Division in 1972-73, three points behind Liverpool
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I think now I can write iambic pentameter, so if I ever have to write The Demon again, I'm on it ... There's a really good entry on it on Wikipedia.
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Guess what? ... A lot of ancient-history specialists? They're not online, let alone involved in Wikipedia. But a lot of students are going to Wikipedia for information on ancient history.
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Guess what? ... A lot of ancient-history specialists? They're not online, let alone involved in Wikipedia. But a lot of students are going to Wikipedia for information on ancient history.
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Crowd-sourcing Web services such as Wikipedia, YouTube and Facebook have become preferred customer destinations for breaking news, displacing Web sites of traditional news publishers. We content creators must quickly and decisively act to take back control of our content.
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He just got a bunch of people to give him a bunch of money thinking, 'Oh, this is the guy who created Wikipedia.' Well guess what? He didn't create Wikipedia. Larry Sanger did.
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That's also when the star of Wikipedia really began to rise and started to enter into public consciousness. Jimmy Wales had a real financial motive to portray himself as the brains behind Wikipedia, when I really don't think he was.
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In 2004, at just the time when he was leaving out any mention of me in discussing the history of Wikipedia, he was starting Wikia. That's actually when it was getting its funding
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Crowd-sourcing Web services such as Wikipedia, YouTube and Facebook
SOURCE: one man and his blog
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