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Why We Don't Like You: Nebraska Cornhuskers
Austinist - 2 hours 59 minutes agoWikipedia Each week, we'll look at some reasons to taunt, belittle, and bully the Longhorns' football opponent. This week: the Nebraska Cornhuskers. We Used To Be Friends: You've never forgiven us for knocking you off your perch when the Big 12 Conference was formed by adding Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, and Baylor to your old Big Eight conference. Before then, Nebraska or Oklahoma won the Big ...
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Facebook More Popular Than eBay, Wikipedia, And U.S.
The Huffington Post - Fri Dec 4, 11:44 am ETWhat's Your Reaction? It's only been a couple of days since Facebook revealed that it had topped 350 million users -- exceeding the population of the United States. But that wasn't the end of the shocking statistics about Facebook usage.
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Rome Displays Ancient Roman Luxury Complex
redOrbit - Fri Dec 4, 9:18 am ETImage Caption: Palazzo Valentini. Courtesy Wikipedia
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How much do hospital boards care about quality of care? MedCity Morning Read, Dec. 4, 2009
MedCity News - Fri Dec 4, 8:44 am ETImage via Wikipedia Highlights of the important and the interesting in the world of health care: Quality is not job 1: A survey published in Health Affairs revealed that, for more than half of hospital boards, quality of care is not among the top two priorities when evaluating chief executives. It seems most hospital boards are more concerned with business and financial matters than the quality ...
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Google Dictionary Launches: Get Definitions From Wikipedia And The Web
The Huffington Post - Fri Dec 4, 8:29 am ETWhat's Your Reaction? What does "googling" mean? Google can tell you. The search giant has quietly rolled out Google Dictionary, which presents definitions and synonyms. Exactly what you'd expect from a dictionary.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
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December 4, 2009: Blade Runner
Wed Dec 31, 7:00 pm EST'' Blade Runner '' is a 1982 American science fiction ...
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