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This past Friday I was allowed out on a field trip from my medically induced home sabbatical. Yes, Black Friday, as many people–particularly those in media–like to refer to it. And why is it called Black Friday anyway? Full Article at NorthJersey.com
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THE TIMES: A Democrat, Mr. Michaels represented a largely rural, mostly conservative and heavily Roman Catholic constituency in the Finger Lakes region of west-central New York. That put him in a difficult position on the abortion issue. Full Article at Room Eight
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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 »
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If you Google the Jefferson Highway, I come up before Wikipedia does ... That's not easy.
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Ubisoft needed to publish something amazing given their anemic financials thus far this year, and delivered. was simply put, amazing. The sequel vastly improves upon which given all the hype, was disappointing to say the least. Full Article at Crunch Gear
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Wikipedia really is the "first draft of history" and more than that, maybe a vital part of how our species is working together for the common good. Full Article at Huffington Post
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NY Senate Rejects state recognition of same-sex marriagesEmpire State still doesn’t recognize same-sex civil unions
GayPatriotAccording to Wikipedia, while the Empire State recognizes same-sex marriages performed in a different state, it, like most Northeastern states, does not have a domestic partnership program. Full Article at GayPatriot
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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 »
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Google’s PageRank algorithm, Twitscoop’s zeitgeist measurement, and Wikipedia’s post hoc peer review
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It’s a great time to be a music junkie. In addition to iTunes, Rhapsody, Pandora and other music sources, you’ve got traditional mediums such as CDs and vinyl records. Those who simply enjoy following music have just as many online portals as well. Full Article at Taunton Daily Gazette, MA
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Wikipedia's disambiguation reveals that there are Kurdish, Senegalese and Japanese singers named Issa. Full Article at Philadelphia City Paper
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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
– Larry Sanger SOURCE: Internet Evolution -
Crowd-sourcing Web services such as Wikipedia, YouTube and Facebook
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Crowd-sourcing Web services such as Wikipedia, YouTube and Facebook, have become preferred customer destinations for breaking news
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Wikipedia is usually one of the first sources to turn up in a Google search ... But a lot of students don’t know that the site is actually a wiki that anyone can edit. I show them how it works, and explain that it might not be consistently reliable.
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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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The actual smartness of the internet comes from applications like Google or Wikipedia, not from the plumbing that just shuffles data around ... SELFMAN takes those smart components and amplifies them – makes them automatically more efficient, more scalable and more robust.
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With our wiki, if ten times as many people start to use it, you just add more machines ... We can handle far more users than the actual Wikipedia.
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Every piece of information in our Wikipedia exists four times – that’s a number that we found works well – and is spread over all the nodes ... A clever algorithm called Paxos does the heavy lifting to make sure the nodes all agree.
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In the past, information can only be obtained through schools or libraries. But now it's the information-age with access to Wikipedia, Google and blogs. These things give people more power. This is a globalisation process and a natural stage of progression. Our worldview has grown wider, and this is a m...
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I have only my own words to express how I feel ... I have a dream. In offering to host the Olympics in 2016, I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. This will be one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. God bless Wikipedia.
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There's a place for Wikipedia
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Wikipedia demonstrates that there's a thirst for knowledge and for having an online encyclopedia ... We're not here to denigrate Wikipedia because there's definitely a need for that kind of service; but they went for the base of the triangle, going for quantity over quality.
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Wikipedia demonstrates that there's a thirst for knowledge and for having an online encyclopedia ... We're not here to denigrate Wikipedia because there's definitely a need for that kind of service; but they went for the base of the triangle, going for quantity over quality.
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We've been using SVG very heavily on Wikipedia because it gives us a standard format for graphics, which can be edited by multiple people
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It’s just going to be some asterisk in Sarah Palin’s Wikipedia page
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Phorm really ought to be picking on someone their own size: perhaps Commissioner Reding, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, or Amazon and Wikipedia
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Wikipedia is for specific facts like what swine flu is or details about Paris
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That's been hugely important ... Of the 250m CC licences in use, about 100m are for Flickr – but that quarter-billion doesn't include Wikipedia, which several months ago converted to a Creative Commons licence, and I think everyone understands Wikipedia. Flickr was the first and most important user of C...
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There are some people whose business models become difficult when Creative Commons becomes popular, just because it shifts the attention. Wikipedia probably is not that exciting for Britannica
SOURCE: Guardian Unlimited
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