Jimmy Wales on what's next for Wikipedia
CNET - Fri Nov 6, 12:54 pm ETFounder of the online community-written encyclopedia talks to Silicon.com about what's next for the site and why it needs geeks of all kinds.
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Google AdMob buyout latest in long line of acquisitions
Network World - Tue Nov 10, 5:14 am ETIn light of Google's announced plan this week to buy mobile advertising provider AdMob for $750 million, it seems like a good time to take a spin back through Google’s more notable buyouts over the years. Wikipedia lists more than 50 of them, and given Google’s sometimes mysterious ways, there are no doubt a few that didn’t make the public list.
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Nokia Foundation Awards the Founder of Wikipedia
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance - Wed Nov 4, 11:30 am ETThe Nokia Foundation has granted its 2009 award to Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, the free, multilingual encyclopedia. Wales was awarded for his contributions to the evolution of the World Wide Web as a participatory and truly democratic platform.
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Hormel Historic Home: Tickets available now for holiday fundraiser
Post-Bulletin - Mon Nov 9, 9:08 am ETDid you know cranberries were named after a bird? From wikipedia.com: "The name cranberry derives from "craneberry," first named by early European settlers in America who felt the expanding flower, stem, calyx, and petals resembled the neck, head, and bill of a crane.
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Under-Body Aerodynamics Ain't Just For Looking Awesome [Car Design]
Jalopnik - Mon Nov 9, 8:55 am ETExcellent under-body aerodynamics will make the bottom of a car look as flat as the underside of a Hot Wheels racer. But looking awesome is obviously not the only purpose. Wikipedia does a pretty...
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From Cajun country to NWI
Post-Tribune - Sun Nov 8, 7:37 am ET"There were six vestal virgins chosen by the high priest. Vestals served for 30 years: 10 as students, 10 in service, 10 as teachers." -- Wikipedia W est of U.S. 41, near the state line on Belshaw Road in Lowell, sits the Bailey homestead. In Josiah Bailey's day, there was no Belshaw Road. But there was the remnant of an Indian trail. Josiah's great-grandson, Don Bailey, lives ...
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Radio IST List: Mission of Burma's Clint Conley
Austinist - Sun Nov 8, 11:00 am ETWikipedia Ed Note: We're pleased to introduce guest contributor Robin Sinhababu, a North Carolina native and current East Austinite. Each week, Robin will be interviewing folks who, as he puts it, "create Austin's food, music, events, and sense of overwhelming and unavoidable fun." Recent Radio IST List posts can be viewed here. From Robin: Clint Conley works hard as a television producer in ...
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Hands-on: OpenMoko WikiReader is simple, appealing
Linux Today - Sat Nov 7, 11:23 pm ETars Technica: "Ars takes a hands-on look at OpenMoko's WikiReader, a handheld device that provides convenient offline access to millions of Wikipedia entries."
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Wikipedia Striving for Balance on Divisive Issues
Baltimore Jewish Times - Thu Nov 5, 12:11 am ETFrom January’s war in Gaza to Holocaust denial, the world’s largest collaborative encyclopedia has become a battlefield over history.
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Package Management With Zypper
Linux Today - Fri Nov 6, 12:08 am ETLinux Magazine: "Zypper is a command line tool for package management, it's based on ZYpp, aka libzypp. The WikiPedia entry for Zypp says: "Unlike other common package managers, it provides a powerful satisfiability solver to compute package dependencies and a convenient package management API."
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Google gives digital music searching an iTune-up
Boston Herald - Thu Nov 5, 12:12 am ETIf you had searched Google for "Poker Face" last month, the results would have been the usual: links to pop-up-infested lyrics sites, a few videos and a Wikipedia...
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Breaking down the nonsense about Wikipedia
The Greyhound - Mon Nov 2, 10:46 am ETWe all know the temptation: it's 3 in the morning on a Wednesday and you're suckin' down the last drops of a 5-Hour Energy trying to belt out a mid term on the Protestant Reformation. You turn to your old friend Google to get you started and your mouse hesitantly hovers over the first search result: "Protestant Reformation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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Five Clicks To Nowhere
The Heights - Thu Nov 5, 1:20 am ETRaise your hand if you've ever played Five Clicks to Jesus on Wikipedia. You know, the game where you start on a randomly generated Wikipedia article and count the number of clicks it takes for you to arrive, via hyperlinks, at Jesus' wiki page. Yep, you know what I'm talking about. Raise those hands high. Congratulations, you've all demonstrated just how much the Internet deserves its "inter ...
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18-year-old elected mayor of Dawson, Iowa
The Gazette - Wed Nov 4, 3:51 pm ETImage via Wikipedia DAWSON, Iowa (AP) – Voters in the Dallas County town of Dawson have chosen an 18-year-old to be mayor. Colton Morman won Tuesday’s election with 29 votes or 53.7 percent. He defeated Jeffrey Anspaugh who had 21 votes or 38.8 percent. There were four write-in votes. The incumbent mayor decided not to run for re-election. Dawson, [...]
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Customize MediaWiki into Your Ultimate Collaborative Web Site [Mediawiki]
Lifehacker - Wed Nov 4, 12:11 pm ETThe free MediaWiki software is best known for powering Wikipedia, but you don't have to be writing an encyclopedia to put it to good use. Extend, skin, and customize MediaWiki to create any kind of...
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$99 device puts Wikipedia in the palm of your hand
Tulsa World - Tue Nov 3, 3:32 am ETWhen I was a kid, my dad bought a copy of the Encyclopedia Britannica. It had 32 volumes and took up 4 feet in the book case. I loved to sit on the couch and flip through it, reading articles at rando ...
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