Tiny Reader Puts Wikipedia in Your Pocket
Wired News - Fri Dec 4, 1:26 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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comScore Media Metrix Ranks Top 50 U.S. Web Properties for October 2009
redOrbit - Thu Nov 19, 8:13 pm ETRESTON, Va., Nov. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- comScore, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly analysis of U.S. Web activity at the top online properties for October 2009 based on data from the comScore Media Metrix service.
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Poynter Institute - Mon Nov 16, 10:50 am ETPoynter Online "To the media 'more accountability' always means 'restricted editing,'" says Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales . "That's not true. Openness is not the enemy of quality. ...There is no move to restrict editing on Wikipedia pages of living people."
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Webby Awards name top 10 Internet moments of the decade
AFP via Yahoo! News - Wed Nov 18, 7:09 pm ETThe birth of Wikipedia, the death of Napster, the iPhone, Facebook, and Twitter were named by the Webby Awards on Wednesday as among the top 10 Internet moments of the decade.
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German killers sue Wikipedia's parent, demanding anonymity
Denver Post - Sun Nov 15, 3:32 am ETWolfgang Werle and Manfred Lauber became infamous for killing a German actor in 1990. Now they are suing to force Wikipedia to forget them.
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Wikipedia Runs Ads Highlighting Their No-Ad Policy
TechCrunch - Sat Nov 14, 8:26 pm ETMoments after Craigslist founder Craig Newmark joins the Wikimedia/Wikipedia advisory board things start to go crazy. Way back in 2006 Jason Calacanis, then an executive at AOL, was trying to convince Wikipedia to puts ads on the site. It would generate $100 million a year in revenue, he said, which could fund the project and other charities: I sat next to Jimbo at a Wikipedia dinner over the ...
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Math is beautiful. ‘The Wire' is ugly.
Everett Herald - Wed Nov 18, 7:44 pm ETOK, math nerds, this one is for you: It's a 3D examination of the Mandelbrot set, a mathematical term named after Benoit Mandelbrot, a French American mathematician, best known as the “father of fractal geometry,” according to Wikipedia.
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Calvin College's January Series will include co-founder of Wikipedia and Rich DeVos
The Grand Rapids Press - Tue Nov 17, 3:05 pm ETAn African economist, a current member of Egypt's parliament and a past pastor of a multi-cultural church in Chicago all are coming to Calvin College in January.
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Click4Care wins award for ‘greatest market potential’ at health IT conference
MedCity News - Wed Nov 18, 4:18 pm ETImage via Wikipedia POWELL, Ohio -- Care-management software firm Click4Care won an award for "greatest market potential" at an health information technology summit held in California last week. Industry executives attending the Healthcare IT Summit voted for the Columbus-area company as the greatest market potential winner in the insurance category, according to a statement from Click4Care. "We ...
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Cover-up aims to alter the past
The Western Courier - Wed Nov 18, 1:48 pm ETIn war they say that history is always written by the victor, however, German law seems to take a different approach to how history should be written. Wolfgang Werlé and Manfred Lauber, two German men who were convicted of killing a German actor in 1990, are suing Wikipedia to remove their names from articles connected with the murder.
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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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Flook Sends Open Letter to Editors of Wikipedia
PRWeb via Yahoo! News - Sun Nov 29, 6:00 pm ETFlook welcomes departing Wikipedia editors
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Faith column: Whom do you thank?
Greeley Tribune - Sat Nov 28, 3:05 am ETAnother Thanksgiving Day has come and gone. Did you give thanks? If so, to whom? Wikipedia defines Thanksgiving as "a time to give thanks for the harvest and express gratitude in general." That free online dictionary also informs us that "while perhaps religious in origin, Thanksgiving is now primarily identified as a secular holiday." In light of these statements, consider the following ...
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Report: Wikipedia losing volunteers
CNET - Mon Nov 23, 12:53 pm ETThe online encyclopedia's volunteers, who write, edit, and fact-check, are dropping out at a suddenly quickened pace, says The Wall Street Journal.
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Founder of Wikipedia Creates Website to Aid Homeless People
NBC 15 Mobile - Sat Nov 21, 12:29 pm ETThe founder of the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia has created a new Web site that helps Tampa Bay area's homeless.
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Wikipedia founder creates help site for homeless
ABC 7 Gulfshore News - Sat Nov 21, 9:10 am ETTAMPA: The founder of the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia has created a new Web site that helps Tampa Bay area's homeless.
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