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There is a specter haunting Wikipedia”¦

http://superjaberwocky.particletoast.com [Becker’s Online Journal] The Chronicle of Higher Education reported today that a professor at the University of Oklahoma caught 16 students who plagiarized almost verbatim from the Wikipedia in their final papers. The professor spoke to the Oklahoma Daily. about the case, and recommends that professors give students some kind of guide to how the popular encyclopedia should be used in an academic setting.

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Evolving Trends » Wikipedia 3.0: The End of Google? [del.icio.us]

[Preoccupations] which will not be a mere search engine like Google is but a true Global Brain: a powerful pan-domain inference engine, with a vast set of ontologies (a la Wikipedia 3.0) covering all domains of human knowledge, that can reason and deduce answers and not just throw some information at you using the rudimentary concept of the ’search engine.’

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Posted at 02:10 AM

June 29, 2006

There is a specter haunting Wikipedia”¦

http://superjaberwocky.particletoast.com [Becker’s Online Journal] The Chronicle of Higher Education reported today that a professor at the University of Oklahoma caught 16 students who plagiarized almost verbatim from the Wikipedia in their final papers. The professor spoke to the Oklahoma Daily. about the case, and recommends that professors give students some kind of guide to how the popular encyclopedia should be used in an academic setting.

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Posted at 02:15 AM

Evolving Trends » Wikipedia 3.0: The End of Google? [del.icio.us]

[Preoccupations] which will not be a mere search engine like Google is but a true Global Brain: a powerful pan-domain inference engine, with a vast set of ontologies (a la Wikipedia 3.0) covering all domains of human knowledge, that can reason and deduce answers and not just throw some information at you using the rudimentary concept of the ’search engine.’

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Posted at 02:10 AM

June 27, 2006

Third Time’s a Charm?

[cyrusfarivar.com] Apparently, I’m not good enough for Wikipedia anymore. Round 1 (Concluded : April 14, 2005) Round 2 (Concluded : August 6, 2005)...

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Posted at 02:10 AM

Wikipedia 3.0: The End of Google?

[ Basement Tapes] Evolving Trends » Wikipedia 3.0: The End of Google? technorati tags:Google, Wikipedia, Web 3.0

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Posted at 02:09 AM

June 23, 2006

rosenzweig on wikipedia

[if:book] Rosenzweig adds to a growing body of research trying to determine the accuracy of Wikipedia, in his comparative analysis of it with other online history references, along similar lines of the Nature study. He compares entries in Wikipedia with Microsoft's online resource Encarta and American National Biography Online out of the Oxford University Press and the American Council of Learned Societies.

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Posted at 02:14 AM

A More Inconvenient Truth

[Pajamas Media] Eight economists, including 4 Nobel Laureates met to recommend which global problems could be tackled cost effectively: stopping the spread of AIDs, reducing hunger, promoting trade liberalization and controlling malaria. Every climate control policy was found to have “costs that were likely to exceed the benefits,”

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Posted at 02:12 AM

June 21, 2006

Still Life With Small Miracle

http://outmavarin.blogspot.com [Outpost Mâvarin] Other than bowls of flowers or fruit, I wasn't quite sure what a still life is. For example, does it have to contain something that's alive but doesn't move?

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Posted at 02:11 AM

Not notable

[aTypical Joe: A gay New Yorker living in the rural South] So with Wikipedia I'll stand by my wish for a new emergence of that old oral tradition. And enjoy its honest inaccuracies along with those presented each day by both the "objective" press and the "balanced" press.

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Posted at 02:09 AM

June 19, 2006

Wikipedia fights the trolls

The Politburo Diktathttp://acepilots.com/mt [ The Politburo Diktat] Unless you want to edit the entries on Albert Einstein, human rights in China or Christina Aguilera.Wikipedia’s come-one, come-all invitation to write and edit articles, and the surprisingly successful results, have captured the public imagination. But it is not the experiment in freewheeling collective creativity it might seem to be, because maintaining so much openness inevitably involves some tradeoffs.

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Posted at 02:14 AM

Learning How to Teach on the Blogosphere

[Dennis Dunleavy] June 18, 2006 in 1st Amendment, Ashland, Oregon, Civil Rights, Copyright, Current Affairs, Dennis Dunleavy, Education, Fair Use , First Amendment, Internet Learning, Journalism, Journalism Southern Oregon University, Media Criticism, Mobile Journalists, Our Media, Personal Media, Photoblogging, Photojournalism, Press Freedom, Social Capital, Southern Oregon University, Web/Tech, Weblogs, Wikipedia, blogging, digital cameras, intellectual property, mini-digital video, moblogging, new technologies, orphan works, photoblogs, podcasting, point and shoot cameras, public domain, public journalism

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Posted at 02:12 AM

June 17, 2006

Boston Legal

[Nerd. and so much more!] Mood : tickled Music : Amber Pacific - Can't Hold Back Boston Legal (ABC, IMDB, TV.com, Wikipedia) cracks me up. This is one of my most favorite shows...

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Posted at 02:12 AM

Permanent Link to Useful combination

[It looks obvious» “Things should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” ”” Albert Einstein] Useful combination I’m a fun of the translation software Babylon and of Wikipedia. Although both have weaknesses, using them within their limitation make them very useful tools. Using them together is even better. Babylon, Translation, Wikipedia Posted by Rogel as Technology and Software at 4:25 AM EDT No Comments » June 14th, 2006...

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Posted at 02:10 AM

June 15, 2006

Wikipedia founder to lazy college kids: don't blam...

http://bloggedyblog.blogspot.com [bloggedy blog: the personal weblog of Andrew Careaga -- author, part-time youth minister and aging punk wannabe] Wikipedia founder to lazy college kids: don't blame me for your crappy research papers Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, cautions college...

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Posted at 02:34 AM

Gathering Intelligence

ACRLog[ACRLog] I also regret if this suggests McLemee didn’t accurately quote the source. My reading of it suggested it was something that could have been coming from a third party who could have gotten it wrong.

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Posted at 02:33 AM

June 13, 2006

ArmChairGM For Sports Your Way

[Somewhat Frank ~ Blog by Frank Gruber] ArmChairGM a wiki solution aimed at the sports lover and appears to be built on customized and enhanced version of , the same wiki software, which powers the popular and it's sister site . However, ArmChairGM takes interactivity a step further by also incorporated voting similar to and comments which mirror blog comments to each piece of content.

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Posted at 02:14 AM

Yahoo Answers tops 10 million answers

[blending the mix] Steve Rubel reports that Yahoo Answers has now got more than 10 million answers posted, has been read by 4.2% of the US internet population and is ranked 3rd behind wikipedia and dictionary.com. He suggests that it won’t be long before they start monetizing the site with more than just  PPC and I can see an enormous opportunity for them here.

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Posted at 02:09 AM

June 11, 2006

Signs, Real and Imaginary

http://outmavarin.blogspot.com [Outpost Mâvarin] On my recent trips to Sedona, Los Alamos and Phoenix, I spent a fair amount of time trying to deduce (or at least gamble on) which lanes of Phoenix highways were likely be be fastest and safest over the next half mile. This picture reminds me of the stretch near the airport where the problem was most acute.

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Posted at 02:14 AM

WikiPedia, Links and Content Ideas

http://jamdo.com [ - Jamdo Blog Marketing] If you are an expert in your niche (and after a few weeks of writing, you are likely to at least know more than 95% of the population about that topic) then there are many things you can do in conjunction with Wikipedia that will benefit both your blog and the quality of information in your niche. Unfortunately the quality of information on Wikipedia is not always excellent (I have written about this and the pending evolution of Web 3.0 before), but again, this is something that should be seen as an opportunity rather than a problem.

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Posted at 02:13 AM

June 09, 2006

shirky (and others) respond to lanier's "digital maoism"

[if:book] Clay Shirky has written an excellent rebuttal of Jaron Lanier's wrong-headed critique of collaborative peer production on the Internet: "Digital Maoism: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism." Shirky's response is one of about a dozen just posted on Edge.org, which also published Lanier's essay.

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Posted at 02:19 AM

Lost Lighthouses?

http://binarybonsai.com [ Binary Bonsai] The Soviet Union built a number of automated lighthouses powered by radioisotope thermoelectric generators. [...] Critics argue that they are potentially dangerous, as the radioactive material could leak, leading to radioactive contamination, or be stolen and used in a dirty bomb (according to Bellona's report).

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Posted at 02:13 AM

June 07, 2006

Wikimapiaplaceopedia

http://joeanderson.co.uk/blog [Webby’s World] WikiMapia is most certainly interesting, if anything jsut the Wiki software. It appears to be homebrewed, and not MediaWiki, and it boasts simple AJAX.

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Posted at 02:11 AM

Podcasting with Bruce Sterling, Part 1

[Opinity Weblog] It was at the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy Conference in 1996, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where Pat Cadigan, Vernor Vinge, Bruce, and I closed out the conference. (My and Vernor Vinge's talks are available online--as part of the new version of Lawrence Lessig's Code, which is another story entirely.) At any rate, Bruce remains an absolute exemplar of the peripatetic techno-savant.

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Posted at 02:09 AM

June 05, 2006

Copyright

[ Sleepy-Head] Why do copyright propaganda groups always fail to follow the law? What was it last time, RIAA using lifted code for their website while yelling at...

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Posted at 02:15 AM

Googlepedia- Wikipedia Results In Google Search

http://my-coke.net [Me,My Coke & I: Tech, Gadgets and Anything to Interest the Average Mind] Googlepedia is a firefox extension that alternates google search results and adds wikipedia results to them. So if for example you searched “Romania”...

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Posted at 02:12 AM

June 03, 2006

Infamous? INfamous?!

[BravoZulu.bm “Well Done.” | Yet Another Bermuda Blog] Uh, oh. I’m in Wikipedia. Cruising around the internet and found this. Bottom photo on the right. Scary. Beats being this guy. I guess one thing they...

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Posted at 02:11 AM

Angels and Demons, the best Dan Brown creation yet?

[Nerd. and so much more!] Mood : accomplished Music : Fiona Apple - Fast as You Can The fascination for Dan Brown’s style of thrillers kept me captivated through his earlier works like Angels and Demons (Amazon, Wikipedia), Digital Fortress (Amazon, Wikipedia), and Deception Point (Amazon, Wikipedia). The first two books were thrilling but do not compare to the Robert Langdon books. I hear that Dan Brown is writing the third installment of the Langdon adventures. I’ll leave it to you to look at the plot from the links listed above, and I really enjoyed the books. It took me less than 10 hours to re-gobble this (night, morning, afternoon). Like I said, captivating. I’m going to mention a few interesting tidbits I came across that I wanted to share. Thumbs-up sign is an ancient phallic symbol for masculine virility. Fun fact about the connection between Shaitan (Islamic) and Satan (Christian). See the similarity? According the book, “Shaitan is the root of an English word ”¦ Satan”. The threads between...

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