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.
Wikipedia
262 Stories, most recent news story added Tue Nov 24, 4:49 pm ET
News Stories
-
Freedom Writer
Cincinnati CityBeat - Tue Nov 24, 4:49 pm ETChuck Prophet heads south for new album Before I could even fully ask the question, Chuck Prophet (the Petty-with-an-edge Americana singer/songwriter/guitarist) was laughing. I said the word "Wikipedia," and he instantly knew I was heading to this paragraph in his entry: "Chuck Prophet parted with New West Records in 2005 after a restaurant tab argument involving an extra order of garlic bread."
-
Massive Attack Announce New Album
Pitchfork - Tue Nov 24, 11:13 am ETAlmost seven years after their full studio album, 2003's 100th Window , trip-hop pioneers Massive Attack are ready to release more dubby darkness into the world. Their fifth full-length, Heligoland , is out February 9 via Virgin in the U.S. (February 8 in the UK). (Heligoland is "a small German archipelago in the North Sea," according to our friends at Wikipedia .) The album features an enviable ...
-
AMA opposes mandatory naps for residents, breaks with IOM
MedCity News - Tue Nov 24, 11:45 am ETImage via Wikipedia CHIGAGO, Illinois -- Entering into a contentious debate, the American Medical Association has adopted a new policy against guaranteeing sleep time for residents working overnight shifts. Requiring naps "could have significant, unintended consequences for continuity of patient care and safety, as well as being difficult and expensive to implement and monitor," according to ...
-
Why Does the Wilbur Theatre Suck? Better Rock Shows in 5 Steps
Bostonist - Tue Nov 24, 10:59 am ETPhoto by Wikipedia user Twp , used under a Creative Commons license. The commenters on yesterday's post about the unforgiveably awful Sonic Youth-Feelies show at the Wilbur Theatre have raised a lot of thoughtful points about the state of touring rock shows in today's world. Sound techs on a the professional message board ProSoundWeb noticed the post yesterday and chimed in with their own advice ...
-
Wikipedia founder creates help site for homeless
NBC 2 Fort Myers - Sat Nov 21, 8:12 am ETAssociated Press - November 21, 2009 8:04 AM ET TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - The founder of the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia has created a new Web site that helps Tampa Bay area's...
-
Google's book library great feat, but flawed
The Reflector - Tue Nov 24, 4:24 am ETIn the age of Wikipedia, Google, UrbanDictionary and Facebook, so much knowledge is available through one portal: the Internet, the largest library in the world.
-
English Shell Code Could Make Security Harder
Slashdot - Mon Nov 23, 8:48 pm ETAn anonymous reader writes to tell us that finding malicious code might have just become a little harder. Last week at the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, security researchers Joshua Mason, Sam Small, Fabian Monrose, and Greg MacManus presented a method they developed to generate English shell code [PDF]. Using content from Wikipedia and other public works to train their ...
-
Campus comedy
The Montana Standard - Mon Nov 23, 4:07 pm ETBy the time Nick Andrews entered college, he already had a hit YouTube video under his belt and a Wikipedia page. Now, he is in the running for a national comedy competition.
-
Invacare adds former Virginia senator to board
MedCity News - Mon Nov 23, 11:00 am ETImage via Wikipedia ELYRIA, Ohio -- Invacare Inc. has appointed Charles Robb , a former senator and governor from Virginia, to its board of directors. Robb, a Democrat who represented Virginia in the U.S. Senate from 1989 to 2001, is scheduled to begin his term on Invacare's board on March 10, according to a statement from the home-health equipment maker. "As Invacare looks to maximize the ...
-
Wikipedia, iPhone among decade's top 10 Internet moments
Reuters via Yahoo! News - Thu Nov 19, 12:04 pm ETThe launch of Wikipedia, emergence of the iPhone and the election of U.S. President Barack Obama were among the 10 most influential moments on the Internet in the past decade, according to the annual Webby awards.
-
Catastrophe, Disaster, Calamity and a Kayak. [Front Pages]
Gawker - Mon Nov 23, 9:43 am ETThe world is falling apart! Water is full of feces, debt is collossal, sex offenders are running rife, six-packs abs are a sham and no-one updates Wikipedia any more. A look at today's front pages...
-
Web-Based Social Media and the Public Interest
Dr. Dobb's Journal - Thu Nov 19, 1:17 pm ETSpeakers at Berkeley symposium will include Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales, EFF's Mitchell Kapor, and Twitter's Dick Costolo, among others Twitter - Dick Costolo - Jimmy Wales - Business - Social Networking
-
A-Space melds social media and intelligence gathering
Government Computer News - Sun Nov 22, 9:54 pm ETWith the much-praised Intellipedia, the intelligence community learned to use a Wikipedia-like information repository to share information. Now the Defense Intelligence Agency is taking the next step on social media, with a shared workspace project named A-Space.
-
Wikipedia founder creates online resource for Tampa Bay's homeless
St. Petersburg Times - Fri Nov 20, 10:44 pm ETAn Internet mogul launches a site with resources for homeless people in the bay area.
-
Esther Wojcicki: Creative Commons In 2009: The Accomplishments In Promoting Worldwide Sharing
The Huffington Post - Sat Nov 21, 6:57 pm ETEducation is the pathway out of poverty and Creative Commons licensing makes it possible to share educational materials online for free.
Wikipedia: Today's Featured Entry
-
December 4, 2009: Blade Runner
Wed Dec 31, 7:00 pm EST'' Blade Runner '' is a 1982 American science fiction ...
