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The evidence of Google's involvement tends to be sketchy. Full Article at Information Week
Carl Sagan with a model of the Viking Lander. Photo via Wikipedia I miss Carl Sagan. Full Article at Neatorama
You probably don’t know this. A lot of people probably don’t. We do, but then again, we’re kind of experts in this area, so you don’t have to feel insecure about it. Anyway, it turns out that Merlot, the wine, is not named after Merle Haggard. Full Article at Woot Wine
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
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
Representative Joseph Cao, who represents Louisiana's 2nd Congressional District (which includes New Orleans and leans Democratic), was the only Republican to vote for HR 3962, the health care bill, which passed 220-215 according to the San Francisco... Full Article at Associated Content
When you hear an electric guitar, it's almost always distorted. Full Article at kuro5hin.org
"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
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
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
Big spenders. To be frank, Peterborough squad are the ‘Poundland’ of the Championship. Promoted last year through the playoffs, some of the figures paid for Newcastle United players in recent times would pay for the whole Peterborough squad. Full Article at Soccer Blogs
Maybe you’ve been editing Wikipedia for years. Or maybe you made your first edit a few days ago. Full Article at ResourceShelf
Here we have a collaboration between Levi's and Tommy Guerro. Now I am not going to even pretend to know who Tommy Guerro is so let's see what Wikipedia has to say. Full Article at Denimology
“Much writing and research has been devoted to the relationship between the thermodynamic quantity entropy [specifically its negative, negentropy] and the evolution of life.” — Wikipedia, Entropy and life “But the Hebrew word, the word timshel — ‘Thou... Full Article at Remembrance in Spacetime
Then which one is it? The following definitions were derived, paraphrased and condensed from on-line sources including Websters, Wikipedia, Scientific American and others. Full Article at Town Hall
+ “We know there are geeks who aren’t computer geeks,” he adds. Full Article at ResourceShelf
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. Full Article at All Things Digital
It's still early days for Google Wave but already there are a large number of Gadgets and Robots being developed. If you don't know the difference, Gadgets are local, client-side (as in they run on your computer), Javascript and HTML. Full Article at Download Squad
Both read the Bible day and night, But thou read'st black where I read white. -- William Blake, The Everlasting Gospel The Pope is not the only person keeping religion in the news. Full Article at Huffington Post
WSJ – “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.” Comments for this... Full Article at Library Stuff
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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 »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 »Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, speaks at the 'Facing Tomorrow' conference in Jerusalem, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009. The global conference hosted by Peres opened in Jerusalem on Tuesday.
View Photo »New WikiReader device puts the 3.1 million English language articles of the Wikipedia in the palm of your hand on a $99 easy-to-use device.
View Photo »Shane Fitzgerald, at home in Dublin, Ireland, Monday, May, 11, 2009. Shane posted a poetic but phony quote on Wikipedia, he was testing how our globalized, increasingly Internet-dependent media would uphold standards of accuracy and accountability in an age of instant news.
View Photo »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 »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.
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...
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%.
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
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!
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!
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)!
Books are just devices. Wikipedia is the new Britannica
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
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.
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.
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
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?
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Crowd-sourcing Web services such as Wikipedia, YouTube and Facebook
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