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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Google Leaders Can Be Prisoners of Privacy Wars: Ann Woolner
Bloomberg - Thu Nov 26, 9:33 pm ETNov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Google Inc.’s top lawyer, David Drummond , appealed to a London audience last month to help fight censorship of the World Wide Web. He mentioned China, Turkey and Thailand as some of the worst offenders of free Internet speech.
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Who has the president’s ear in the health debate? MedCity Morning Read, Nov. 27, 2009
MedCity News - Fri Nov 27, 9:15 am ETImage via Wikipedia Highlights of the important and the interesting in the world of health care: Who's got the president's ear? The Associated Press has obtained a list of 575 White House visitor records relating to President Obama's plans to overhaul the health care system. Not surprisingly, lots of lobbyists, strategists, and health insurance chief executives' names are included in the list ...
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Wikipedia founder creates on-line source of help for Tampa Bay's homeless
St. Petersburg Times - Fri Nov 20, 9:09 pm ETTAMPA Between stops in his globe-trotting life as an Internet mogul, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales came to Ybor City Friday to launch a new Web site that offers a wide range of resources for the homeless in the Tampa Bay area.
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Wikipedia loses nearly 50,000 volunteer editors: study
New York Daily News - Wed Nov 25, 11:42 am ETThe English-language version of the site suffered a net loss of 49,000 volunteer editors in the first three months of this year, compared with 4,900 for the same period a year earlier, according to a university study.
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Is Wikipedia dying?
The Week - Wed Nov 25, 5:56 pm ETThe world's fifth-most-popular website relies almost entirely on volunteer labor — and the volunteers are quitting
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Wikipedia Bans Volvo IT Over Racist Rants
The Huffington Post - Wed Nov 25, 3:10 pm ETWhat's Your Reaction? What's Your Reaction? Want to reply to a comment? Hint: Click "Reply" at the bottom of the comment; after being approved your comment will appear directly underneath the comment you replied to
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Vudu Adds Wikipedia Info Links For Movie Titles
Broadcasting and Cable - Tue Nov 24, 7:58 pm ETSanta Clara, Calif. - Vudu said through a blog on its Web site Tuesday that the streaming and...
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UPI NewsTrack Quirks in the News
UPI - Wed Nov 25, 5:03 pm ETThanksgiving parade goes off-Broadway ... Researcher: Wikipedia losing editors ... Couple's sex in a clock tower draws crowd ... Figurines depict women in life of PM ... UPI Quirks in the News.
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Editors Quit Wikipedia As Site Ages
The Huffington Post - Mon Nov 23, 9:41 am ETWikipedia.org is the fifth-most-popular Web site in the world, with roughly 325 million monthly visitors. But unprecedented numbers of the millions of online volunteers who write, edit and police it are quitting.
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Wikipedia Gridlocked by Wikipedia Nerds
Gawker - Mon Nov 23, 11:58 am ETWikipedia was probably pretty cool a few years back when you could just get a wild hair and immediately post up an article on The Artifacts, or whatever. But now it's run by a dead-ender Debbie...
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O2 Launches A 'People-Powered' Network For The Social Age
paidContent.org via Yahoo! Finance - Wed Nov 25, 11:32 am ETIt already powers Tesco Mobile's network , now O2 is launching its own UK virtual carrier with a difference. Low-priced PAYG Giffgaff is entirely owned by the Telefonica (NYSE: TEF - News ) subsidiary though operated separately, depending on its users to do its crowdsourced marketing, sales and customer support ... A spokesperson tells us it's inspired by collaboration found in Wikipedia and ...
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Wikipedia's Brain Drain [Data]
Gizmodo - Mon Nov 23, 11:49 am ETThe decay of time, bitter infighting, and the increasing scope and strength of regulations slowly strangle the life out of Wikipedia, with editors—its braintrust—fleeing in droves, even...
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Is Wikipedia maxed out?
ZDNet - Mon Nov 23, 10:51 am ETWikipedia may have reached the upper limits of what can be done with crowdsourcing, according to a researcher in Spain.
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The Most Influential Websites in the World: Wikipedia #1, Twitter #4 With a Bullet
ReadWriteWeb - Tue Nov 24, 11:24 pm ETA year ago we profiled an oddly-named service called ://URLFAN , which we concluded was a good 'Influence Index' for the Web. ://URLFAN ranks websites by popularity, based on blog mentions . Unlike analytics services like Alexa or Compete , ://URLFAN doesn't measure website traffic. It's similar to Technorati , only ://URLFAN ranks all websites and tweetmeme_url = 'http://www ...
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Lawmakers grapple with state’s budget deficit
Queens Chronicle - Thu Nov 26, 12:02 am ETBudget negotiations at the capitol have reached an impasse over health and education cuts. WIKIPEDIA Lawmakers in Albany are on familiar ground again after Gov. David Paterson ordered a series of extraordinary sessions to resolve this year’s nearly $4 billion budget deficit.
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 ...
