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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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...
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Wikipedia founder in town to launch site to fight homelessness
The Tampa Tribune - Wed Nov 18, 11:35 am ETThe founder of Wikipedia will be back in Tampa Bay this week to help launch a new online project to fight homelessness in Hillsborough County.
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Gordon Willis, the Man Who Plays Peekaboo
Bostonist - Sat Nov 21, 1:15 pm ETImage from Wikipedia Gordon Willis Showcase Harvard Film Archive (24 Quincy St, Cambridge) Pennies from Heaven, The Parallax View, The Purple Rose of Cairo, The Godfather, The Godfather: Part II, The Landlord Through November 30 Last night, Bostonist had the pleasure of watching the Woody Allen classic Manhattan open up the HFA’s Gordon Willis series, featuring Willis live and in person. From ...
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Tween Singer's Chaotic L.I. Mall Appearance, Record Exec Arrested
Gothamist - Sat Nov 21, 10:43 am ETYesterday, tween singing sensation (or so Wikipedia leads us to believe) Justin Bieber was scheduled to make an appearance at the Roosevelt Field Mall on Long Island. Apparently the 15-year-old's fans were really excited to see him, because thousands flocked to the mall, forcing the police to cancel the event. Newsday says that "a crowd of 3,000 young girls and their parents started aggressively ...
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Wikipedia, iPhone Among Top Internet Moments
InternetNews.com - Thu Nov 19, 9:05 pm ETAn encyclopedia anyone can edit and 140 characters of whatever are among the most important net events of the decade.
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Kris Allen: The Billboard Cover Q&A
Billboard - Fri Nov 20, 2:41 pm ET'American Idol' season-eight champ talks about his new album, his upcoming tour — and what he learned from Wikipedia. Plus: The Adam Lambert Billboard cover feature and video.
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Mutant Koobface worm attacks Skype accounts
TG Daily - Fri Nov 20, 5:36 pm ETProbes Wikipedia, YouTube and Google
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Top 10 Internet Moments of the Decade
Fox News - Thu Nov 19, 2:35 pm ETThe birth of Wikipedia, the death of Napster, the iPhone, Facebook and Twitter have been named by the Webby Awards as among the top 10 Internet moments of the decade.
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Lupe Fiasco Verifies His Wikipedia Page
Baller Status - Tue Nov 17, 3:39 pm ETJohn Hodgman, of Vocalo.org, sits down with Chicago rapper Lupe Fiasco as a part of his mini-series The Wikipedia Files, where he finds out if the individual's Wiki page is actually correct. While Lupe's is mostly correct, a couple things were found wrong.
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Facebook, Wikipedia Execs Brief Vatican on Web
CIO Today - Tue Nov 17, 11:25 am ETVatican officials and Catholic bishops are getting a lesson on the Internet from Facebook, Wikipedia and Google executives as the church struggles to get its message out in the digital age. A four-day symposium in the Vatican which opened Thursday also will address Internet copyright issues and hacking -- including testimony from a young Swiss hacker and an Interpol cyber-crime official. The ...
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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.
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 ...
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Wikipedia to disclose user's IP address in blackmail case
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