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25 Classic Books That Have Been Banned »
Posted by: lovemorgul 1 month ago in Humor
Most leaders feel the responsibility to protect the people they oversee. However, many issues arise when the people are over-censored. There are definite lines between ...
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5 Terrifying Bastardizations of the Wikipedia Model »
Posted by: azies 1 month, 3 weeks ago in Humor
What kind of people feel the need to set up an entirely separate reference? Why, that would be the ones who live on the fringes ...
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Did McCain Plagiarize His Speech on the Georgia Crisis? »
Posted by: TimALoftis 10 months, 4 weeks ago in News
A Wikipedia editor notices some similarities between Sen. John McCain's speech today on the crisis in Georgia and the Wikipedia article on the country ...
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Did McCain Plagiarize His Speech on the Georgia Crisis? »
Posted by: TimALoftis 10 months, 4 weeks ago in News
A Wikipedia editor notices some similarities between Sen. John McCain's speech today on the crisis in Georgia and the Wikipedia article on the country ...
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Media Duped Into Using Fake Quote In Their Rush To Disseminate News Quickly Rather Than Accurately »
Posted by: epiphannyy 1 month, 3 weeks ago in News
When Dublin university student Shane Fitzgerald posted a poetic but phony quote on Wikipedia, he said he was testing how our globalized, increasingly Internet-dependent media ...
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Church of Scientology Banned from Editing Wikipedia »
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 1 month, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
Wikipedia has decided enough is enough. After too many self-serving edits by the Church of Scientology, Wikipedia has decided to ban edits from IP addresses ...
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Obama Racial Slur On Wikipedia, Google »
Posted by: TimALoftis 4 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Web surfers who used Google.com to search for information on President Barack Obama on Tuesday afternoon were presented with a racial slur. The slur ...
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Britannica to Take on Wikipedia with End-User Editing »
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 5 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
In early spring of 2008, while writing about changes Encylopedia Brittanica was making to its online edition, I suggested that they move to a model ...
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Wikipedia Tops Its 2008 Fundraising Goal »
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 6 months ago in Science & Technology
Things were looking dire for Wikipedia's annual fundraising campaign, so bad that founder Jimmy Wales posted a personal appeal on Dec. 23. On Friday ...
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The 11 Stupidest Moments in Tech for 2008 »
Posted by: IsraGeek 5 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Tech is overflowing with creative and hypermotivated people who do a lot of pretty incredible things. But they can be counted on to do some ...
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Jason Calacanis: "I want to build the next Yahoo! or Wikipedia" »
Posted by: MyWayOnNow 6 months ago in Science & Technology
Jason Calacanis isn't exactly the most popular online entrepreneur around.
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In the past he's called SEO " ********" and " a wasted industry" while speaking in ...Read (165) | Share | Discuss (0) | Read Full Story at techradar.com
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Encarta to Fold; Wikipedia Cheers »
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 3 months, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
A post on Microsoft's Encarta website notes that the Encarta website, as well as the software products bearing the Encarta name, are being discontinued.
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Wikipedia blocks access from Church of Scientology in L.A. »
Posted by: Progressive 1 month ago in Religion
The Internet encyclopedia Wikipedia has blocked all contributions from computers at the Church of Scientology's Los Angeles headquarters to stop users there from revising ...
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Is Wikipedia Moving Toward Restricting Edits? »
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 5 months, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
Just as the Encyclopedia Britannica announced they will allow end-users to edit their articles --- with moderation, however --- Wikipedia, which has always allowed free-for-all editing at ...
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Put Wikipedia In Your Pocket, For $10 »
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 4 months ago in Science & Technology
Two different applications have taken Wikipedia and compressed it into smartphone-digestible form. Both of them sell the resulting database for $10.
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