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Dirty Political Tricks on WikiPedia

[Skipease Free People Search and Public Record News Blog - Skip Trace, People Search, Web Search and Public Record News] Revisions made by Capitol Hill staffers became so frequent and disruptive earlier this year that Wikipedia temporarily blocked access to the site from some congressional Internet addresses. The pranks included bumping up the age of the Senate’s oldest member, West Virginia’s Robert Byrd, from 88 to 180, and giving crude names to other lawmakers.

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Technorati in China and other blocked sites

[ The Thinking Stick] The Technorati blog posted on Wednesday that people were complaining, maybe those complaints were heard in Beijing, or maybe it was blocked by accident. There are times here when you can’t get to a bunch of sites, I’m not sure if they reboot the filter servers or what, but there have been times when gmail has been blocked for hours, or yahoo all of a sudden goes down.

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Posted at 02:09 AM

April 29, 2006

Dirty Political Tricks on WikiPedia

[Skipease Free People Search and Public Record News Blog - Skip Trace, People Search, Web Search and Public Record News] Revisions made by Capitol Hill staffers became so frequent and disruptive earlier this year that Wikipedia temporarily blocked access to the site from some congressional Internet addresses. The pranks included bumping up the age of the Senate’s oldest member, West Virginia’s Robert Byrd, from 88 to 180, and giving crude names to other lawmakers.

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Posted at 02:10 AM

Technorati in China and other blocked sites

[ The Thinking Stick] The Technorati blog posted on Wednesday that people were complaining, maybe those complaints were heard in Beijing, or maybe it was blocked by accident. There are times here when you can’t get to a bunch of sites, I’m not sure if they reboot the filter servers or what, but there have been times when gmail has been blocked for hours, or yahoo all of a sudden goes down.

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Posted at 02:09 AM

April 27, 2006

Mal wieder: Wikipedia in politischer Kampagne missbraucht

http://www.netzpolitik.org [netzpolitik.org: Aktuelle Berichterstattung rund um die politischen Themen der Informationsgesellschaft.] und findet nicht, Mein Samsung Notebook ist wieder kaputt, Hamburger Datenschutzbeauftragter: Gläserner Mensch längst Realität, KOffice 1.5: behindertengerecht mit OpenDocument und neuem Tool Kexi, LinuxTag 2006: Das Practical Linux Forum, Freies WLAN für alle – aber um welchen Preis, Piratenparty am Swarthmore College">11

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Posted at 02:22 AM

Simply Brilliant

Slobokan’s Site O’ Schtuffhttp://www.slobokan.com [Slobokan’s Site O’ Schtuff] Secretary of State Cathy’s Cox’s campaign manager resigned on Wednesday amid allegations that he altered an online biography of Democratic opponent, Lt. Gov.

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Posted at 02:20 AM

April 25, 2006

Ist das die Welt in der ich Leben will?

http://www.netzpolitik.org [netzpolitik.org: Aktuelle Berichterstattung rund um die politischen Themen der Informationsgesellschaft.] und findet nicht, Mein Samsung Notebook ist wieder kaputt, Hamburger Datenschutzbeauftragter: Gläserner Mensch längst Realität, KOffice 1.5: behindertengerecht mit OpenDocument und neuem Tool Kexi, LinuxTag 2006: Das Practical Linux Forum, Freies WLAN für alle – aber um welchen Preis, Piratenparty am Swarthmore College">11

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Posted at 02:12 AM

Web 2.0 - The Cracks are Beginning to Appear

http://jamdo.com [ - Jamdo Blog Marketing] Web 2.0 - The Cracks are Beginning to Appear Posted on Monday 24 April 2006 Web 2.0 has been a great thing for the internet. In fact a lot of people have hailed it is the “democratisation of information” in the way that community oriented sites have allowed people to promote information based on popularity rather than any corporate or media agenda. That’s great but the cracks have started to appear. Some of you have surely been following the latest Digg episode that has sparked a slight furore on the internet. It turned out that Digg was manually altering the results in response to somebody spamming their front page. Then of course, there was the Tammy NYP saga over at Technorati - basically where a sex tape was dominating their search results to such an extent that they were forced to remove all references to it from their front page. We also shouldn’t forget the problems that Wikipedia had with people altering other’s biographies. I guess then we can stop referring to these sites as...

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Posted at 02:10 AM

April 23, 2006

Articles as Argument Nexus

[ Sleepy-Head] Funny article in Wired about wikipedia articles being argument nexus. The first half in hilarious, but then he falls into some of the more boring...

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Posted at 02:12 AM

Pompey

http://binarybonsai.com [ Binary Bonsai] Without it, the city population would starve and riots would certainly ensue. Pompey dealt with the resistance with a harsh hand and when the citizens complained about his methods he replied with one of his most famous quotations: "Stop quoting laws, we carry weapons".

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Posted at 02:10 AM

April 21, 2006

learning to read

[if:book] Somebody interviewed Bob for a documentary a few months ago. I don't remember who this was, because I was in the other room busy with something else, but I was half-listening to what was being discussed: how the book is changing, what precisely the Institute does, in short, what we discuss from day to day on this blog.

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Posted at 02:19 AM

The Broken Window Fallacy

Cynical-C Bloghttp://www.cynical-c.com [Cynical-C Blog] Or, the Parable of the Broken Window The parable describes a shopkeeper whose window is broken by a little boy. Everyone sympathizes with the man whose window was broken, but pretty soon they start to suggest that the broken window makes work for the glazier, who will then buy bread, benefitting the baker, who will then buy shoes, benefitting the cobbler, etc.

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Posted at 02:16 AM

April 19, 2006

Wikipedia Reveals All Secrets of the Universe

Wonkette, Politics for People with Dirty Mindshttp://www.wonkette.com [Wonkette, Politics for People with Dirty Minds] As long as it hasn’t been vandalized by Congressional staffers, Wikipedia is an amazingly useful resource. Earlier: President Bush: “I’m the Decider ””...

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Posted at 02:15 AM

[Diary][Lang][Wikipedia]深追い in Wikipedia

ヒビノキロクhttp://d.hatena.ne.jp/nozom [ヒビノキロク] →OS-tan (Wikipedia) →Japanese honorifics (同)と辿って、 そこからさらにWikipediaの List of English words of Japanese origin、 Customs and etiquette of Japan、 Japanese people、 Shinto、 Japanese mythology といった項目を読み進めてしまい、気が付いたら夜が明けてた。なにやってるんだか。...

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Posted at 02:14 AM

April 17, 2006

on being notable in Wikipedia

[apophenia] I was also mildly intrigued by how i was described in such a setting. Since then, some of my colleagues have edited the entry and my advisors have taunted me continuously.

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Posted at 02:10 AM

Lies, damned lies and Wikipedia

http://www.qwghlm.co.uk/blog [qwghlm.co.uk] The story of Alan Mcilwraith is an intriguing one - a call-centre operative from Glasgow who claimed to friends and colleagues that he had served in the SAS, been decorated and, get this, been knighted - all by the age of 29! It’s intriguing for several reasons - quite apart from the reasons of why he lived this intricately constructed fantasy life (I am no psychologist), it was curious to see how easy it was for him to pass it off.

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Posted at 02:08 AM

April 15, 2006

Category:Exploding animals - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Groovy Linkshttp://groovymother.com/links [Groovy Links] Everything you need to know about Bat Bombs, Anti-tank Dogs and the Oregon Exploding Whale. Suck it, Brittanica!

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Posted at 02:15 AM

Social Search, Part 2

[Opinity Weblog] This is Part 2 of a response to a panel presentation at Xerox PARC I attended earlier this week called "Beyond Search." In Social Search, Part 1, I talked about Netflix, Live365, and Pandora, and the various ways they use the Long Tail in order to do business online, providing films and music to people that they might not otherwise discover.

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Posted at 02:08 AM

April 13, 2006

Criticism of Family Guy

Cynical-C Bloghttp://www.cynical-c.com [Cynical-C Blog] You know that a show is a success when it has pissed off every other cartoon. Posted by Chris...

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Posted at 02:10 AM

Cotidiana Celeria Nexa

Ales Rarus - A Rare Bird, A Strange Duck, One Funky Blog[ Ales Rarus - A Rare Bird, A Strange Duck, One Funky Blog] Cotidiana Celeria Nexa By Funky Dung Ian’s Shoelace Site - Shoelace Knots - How To Tie Your Shoes 16 ways to tie shoelaces?!? Wow.

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Posted at 02:08 AM

April 11, 2006

Napoleon Dynamite

http://camerondeyhle.blogspot.com [A Robot Cometh - Mp3 Indie Music Reviews] Since watching "the movie" recently, I decided to do a bit of research on the original Dynamite. Like anyone who wants to learn something but doesn't want to do actual work to acquire the knowledge, I visited Wikipedia.com.

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Posted at 02:12 AM

Random Bits

[Dream Logic] It’s weird to think that OpenBSD is 12 years old. On the one hand that sounds like a long time, but on the other hand it means it wasn’t really around for very long before I had first heard about it and played with it.

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Posted at 02:10 AM

April 09, 2006

2006-04-09

[Not isaacmao.com - BlogBus.com] isaac's backup site. If you were redirected from accessing www.isaacmao.com, it means the isaacmao.com is still being blocked

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Posted at 02:08 AM

Lack of choice, lack of innovation

http://www.netzpolitik.org [netzpolitik.org: Aktuelle Berichterstattung rund um die politischen Themen der Informationsgesellschaft.] content=”Brockhaus, Enzyklopädie, Brockhaus-Enzyklopädie, Brockhaus-Infothek, Lexikon, Lexika, Nachschlagewerk, Standardwerk, Brockhaus multimedial, Allgemeinbildung, Wissen, Konversationslexikon, CD-ROM, Multimedia, Edutainment, Infotainment, Lernsoftware, Wissensgesellschaft, digitales Nachschlagen, Visionen 2000, James Rizzi, Andy Warhol, Andre Heller, Kinder-Brockhaus, Gesundheitsbrockhaus, Mensch-Natur-Technik, Infothek, Klalle Clever, Clever-Club, Meilensteine, Wissen der Menschheit, Verlag, Bibliographisches Institut & F.A.

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Posted at 02:07 AM

April 07, 2006

Fun with Wikipedia

[TheBillyGoatCurse.com] This entry was posted on Wednesday, April 5th, 2006 at 1:05 pm and is filed under Funny, Wikipedia. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

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Posted at 02:10 AM

Obscure Wikipedias

[Webby’s World] The largest, obviously, is the English Wikipedia with over 1,000,000 articles; the German Wikipedia has nearly 400,000, the French 265k and the Polish version has 225k.

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Posted at 02:07 AM

April 05, 2006

White Rose

Cynical-C Bloghttp://www.cynical-c.com [Cynical-C Blog] I don't think I could ever advocate non-violent resistance against the Nazis. I'd be advocating slaughtering anyone who wore a swastika in any fashion.

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Posted at 02:26 AM

New Trends In Online Traffic

http://the-morningstar.blogspot.com [Cynical Chatter From The Underworld] I don't look in the local paper to see what's on any more, I loook online, if I want the population of the world I look online, if I want a phone number I look online. If I want to see someone elses views on current events I look online, and I can see what other people thought about a book that interests me, the universe is on my desktop.

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Posted at 02:16 AM

April 03, 2006

MyTungsten = Dead

http://www.marktopia.net [Marktopia] It is official, I have not renewed the domain name of mytungsten.net.  This likely means some cyber squatter will jump all over it and offer it back to me for 5K or something.  I am content with letting it go into the history of The Content Webring.

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Posted at 02:08 AM

April Fool’s Jokes Collection on Wikipedia (2006)

Latest Technology, Softwares, Gadgets, and Reviews at LiewCF.com[ Latest Technology, Softwares, Gadgets, and Reviews at LiewCF.com] Wikepedia has a collection of April Fool’s jokes on the last Saturday.

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Posted at 02:08 AM