Tiny Reader Puts Wikipedia in Your Pocket
Wired News - Thu Dec 3, 6:46 pm ETWikiReader puts almost all of the English-language Wikipedia in a small, portable package that doesn't require (or have) any kind of internet connection.
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Wikipedia to reveal identity of 'editor' who allegedly blackmailed mother and child
New York Daily News - Thu Dec 3, 1:46 pm ETA High Court judge has ordered the owners of the online encyclopedia to disclose the IP address of a registered user who blackmailed a woman and her child.
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UK Judge Orders Wikipedia To Reveal User's Identity
Slashdot - Thu Dec 3, 7:16 pm ETBoxRec writes with this excerpt from The Daily Mail: "A mother trying to identify a blackmailer who posted 'sensitive' details about her child on Wikipedia has won the right to find out who edited her entry. In the first case of its kind, a High Court judge has ordered the online encyclopedia's parent company to disclose the IP address of one of its registered users." Read more of this story at ...
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Wikepedia co-founder and "father of the Internet" added to SEVC lineup
TechJournal South - Wed Dec 2, 12:35 pm ETTYSONS CORNER, VA - The 2010 Southeast Venture Conference (SEVC) will feature two of the top innovators of our time at the event scheduled for February 24-25 in Tysons Corner, VA. Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, and Vint Cerf, widely known as the "Father of the Internet" and current Chief Internet Evangelist for Google, will speak at the event.
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Craig Newmark: Wikipedia at a turning point
The Huffington Post - Wed Dec 2, 8:00 pm ETWikipedia really is the "first draft of history" and more than that, maybe a vital part of how our species is working together for...
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Wikipedia on Staying Relevant to a Diverse World
WebProNews - Mon Nov 30, 3:06 pm ETWe recently reported on the notion that Wikipedia losing editors could lead to a decline in accuracy. Sue Gardner, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation , which runs Wikipedia, tells WebProNews growth in editing has slowed, but the number of editors is just flat, and not declining. Do you think Wikipedia is usually accurate or do you frequently encounter issues? Discuss here . The ...
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Wikipedia Co-Founder Keynote Speaker at Conference
The Memphis Daily News - Wed Dec 2, 1:17 am ETNASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger will be the keynote speaker at the 27th annual Tennessee Educational Technology Conference t....
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The Digital Decade
Yale Daily News - Fri Dec 4, 4:26 am ETThat won’t surprise you, my little cyberknight; my darling digital warrior. You are a practiced and gleeful member of the brethren of the Net. Even if you tend Luddite, the following terms are likely still familiar to you: e-mail, IM, Google, YouTube, Facebook, Wikipedia.
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Hollyfugs
Go Fug Yourself - Thu Dec 3, 5:51 pm ETMs Emma Rigby here is on the Brit soap Hollyoaks, and may or may not be dating a footballer -- I'm sure our friends at Kickette could answer this question for me, since Wikipedia has failed me -- and she...
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Pfizer CEO issues a warning to Corporate America: MedCity Morning Read, Dec. 3, 2009
MedCity News - Thu Dec 3, 8:36 am ETImage via Wikipedia Highlights of the important and the interesting in the world of health care: Pfizer CEO warns of "real and legitimate" public anger at corporations: Pfizer CEO Jeffrey Kindler is apparently a man who "gets it," and it only took the largest criminal fine in U.S. history , $1.2 billion, for that to happen. Speaking in Boston to a group of fellow chief executives, Kindler warned ...
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Monday Morning Diversion: Wikipedia Files With Kid Sister
Chicagoist - Mon Nov 30, 11:04 am ETIt's the Monday after a looooooong holiday weekend so you're not ready to jump right back into work yet. If you're not scanning the web for the Cyber Monday deals, then consider the below video of WBEZ's Wikipedia Files with Kid Sister, an artist who we dig quite a bit and, hey, she has a new record out. Wikipedia Files with Kid Sister from WBEZ on Vimeo .
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Will a Lack of Editors Affect Wikipedia Accuracy?
WebProNews - Sat Nov 28, 8:15 am ETWikipedia is a very useful site for anyone looking to find information on any given topic. Chances are that you have used it for research at one time or another. Even if you don't start by going directly to Wikipedia, results from the site are often at the top of search results in Google, and you'll get there anyway. Those Google results likely play a significant role, but Wikipedia's popularity ...
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Boston-Power Named 2010 Technology Pioneer by World Economic Forum
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance - Thu Dec 3, 9:41 am ETWESTBOROUGH, Mass.----Boston-Power®, Inc., the rapidly growing provider of next-generation lithium-ion batteries, today announced it has been named a 2010 Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum.
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Flook Sends Open Letter to Editors of Wikipedia
PRWeb - Mon Nov 30, 3:09 am ETFlook welcomes departing Wikipedia editors (PRWeb Nov 30, 2009) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/11/prweb3273964.htm
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Struggling Wikipedia Sheds Thousands of Editors
PC World - Sat Nov 28, 2:49 pm ETAn academic researcher questions the site's viability, but Wikipedia defends its policies.
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Semantic Bookmarking Service Faviki Finally Usable Thanks to Delicious Import
ReadWriteWeb - Tue Dec 1, 12:09 pm ETWhen we first came across Faviki back in 2008 , we were intrigued by the concept of a social bookmarking service built using semantic tagging capabilities. Instead of organizing bookmarks based on user-created tags, Faviki tags come from structured information extracted from Wikipedia. After F aviki's update earlier this year which improved the tagging process and introduced OpenID support, we ...
Wikipedia: Today's Featured Entry
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December 4, 2009: Blade Runner
Wed Dec 31, 7:00 pm EST'' Blade Runner '' is a 1982 American science fiction ...
