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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.
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VUDU updates keep rolling by integrating Wikipedia
Engadget - Tue Nov 24, 12:09 pm ETThe VUDU web based architecture is evidently really paying off, because this makes the third VUDU update in the last month. The company tells us that since its UI is pulled from the web like any other website, it can continue to easily roll out updates. This week's addition is a welcomed one, as we'll no longer have to reach for our computer or handheld just to look up the details of a movie on ...
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Wikipedia losing volunteers
CNET - Mon Nov 23, 12:54 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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Remainders - Stuff We Didn't Post (and Why) [Remainders]
Gizmodo - Wed Nov 25, 1:34 am ETCanada Has Its Very Own Version of the AT&T vs. Verizon Ad Lawsuit...CollegeHumor Tackles Modern Warfare 2 (With Bonus Giz Appearance)...LG BL4 Gets Christmas Edition...VUDU Adds Wikipedia, Possibly...
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Jimmy Wales: AP's 'Landing Pages' a Good, if Late, Idea
Poynter Institute - Mon Nov 16, 5:50 am ETJimmy Wales, the co-founder of Wikipedia, is not really in the news business. Yet, as the Associated Press noted in an internal document earlier this year, the two organizations do compete for readers when news breaks.
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Enrich Your Google Search Results Page with Kikin
Search Engine Journal - Tue Nov 24, 12:53 pm ETI never grow tired of reviewing more and more tools that expand the possibilities of Google search. I already took a look at tools that allow to see Twitter search results within Google SERPs and a few addons that generate relevant results from other sources (like Wikipedia, Youtube and other). And here's one more tool that retrieves search results from more… Check out the SEO Tools guide at ...
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Wikipedia Founder Creates Help Site for Homeless
Fox News - Sat Nov 21, 10:13 am 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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'Souvenir' deftly stays right on key
Chicago Sun-Times - Tue Nov 24, 6:14 am ETConsult the Wikipedia entry for Florence Foster Jenkins (1868-1944) andyou will find this blunt assessment: "An American soprano who becamefamous for her complete lack of rhythm, pitch, tone, and overallsinging ability."
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Instant Info
Nightly Business Report - Tue Nov 24, 5:29 pm ETAuthored by Harry Lin, CEO of Lottay.com In a world where Google, Wikipedia, and Twitter can tell you almost anything almost instantly, are we smarter or dumber than we've ever been? Think about these examples: - You're with a group of people and the question comes up, "When is daylight savings time?" Someone whips out their iPhone and Googles the answer. They can even tell you which countries ...
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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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