[Witty's Blog] Part 1: Making Wikipedia “GLAM-friendly” | Witty's Blog: Another response to the GLAM-WIK recommendations that will be published soon (and I’m very excited to have heard this) is that the National Library of Australia has convened a high-level committee to make a formal response. As an organisation that already integrates Wikipedia into many of their services (more than anyone else worldwide as far as I know) they are in a fantastic position to really engage with these recommendations.

[Kate Lundy] CeBIT 2010: Gov 2.0 building a strong foundation for open democracy: NICTA is a part of Australia’s network of ICT research facilities and was established to ensure Australia participates in key emerging information and communication technologies. I look forward to sharing a platform with NICTA’s Chief Executive Officer, David Skellern a little later in the day regarding ICT procurement.

[John Lothian Newsletter] February 17, 2010: CME Group Calls On CFTC To 'Terminate' EFF ...: Wales says the official announcement will be made tomorrow.The Wikimedia Foundation is a non-profit that focuses on the development of free, multilingual content to wiki-based projects. The Wikimedia Foundation operates Wikipedia, but has also helped develop Wikimedia Commons, Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikinews, and Wikiversity.

[conference.archimuse.com - Comments] Invited Attendees and Online Participants: Self nominations (due by December 31, 2009) should state the reasons you feel you will be able to contribute to the workshop and how you have or hope to be able to use Wikimedia projects with your museum. Nominators, including self-nominees, may also name up to three other members of the museum community who they think would be valuable to have in attendance (providing reasons for each).

[Jane Finnis] Take homes from the National Digital Forum (NDF2009) in New ...: Same applies to the stuff that Liam Wyatt from Wikimedia Australia is talking about concerning how to engage the GLAM sector more effectivly with Wikimedia. His recent blog posts on the low hanging fruit in this area are really interesting.

[Untitled] Why I won't support Creative Commons or Wikipedia this year «: I reed aproche all comentary about implication of Wikimedia in creative commons and I think that not this is the esential problem.The esential problem is : HAw and who can start of a program education from all states in the world not only AFrica because exist poverty and in ather country like country Americanas SUD were exist very much peoples who don’t know to writte but in special to reed.We must to unification all associations,fundations all institution ,agencys who spent money from ather projects inutiliy and for this we must to do a charta wen every country poverty or not poverty to bring a contribution materials if is necesary to elaboration a law international special from EDUCATION and all is necessary for suport the program multinatnational lingguistics from each country who is involve in this project.In this program must to entry all nation and all country 214 or more to not be acuse that we leave a country in aout of this program.Organization Freedomilenium with headquarters in Romania expect your opinion and sugestion to improve this document and after to make be public.

[Recent Threats Added to the CMLP Database] International Olympic Committee v. Giles | Citizen Media Law Project: Giles reports that it was not clear to him what exactly the IOC wanted him to do, so a chain of mutual emails followed, in which IOC clarified its position that the only acceptable copyright notice for pictures from Olympic events would be "all rights reserved." In an effort to keep the CC licensing regime, Giles counter-suggested licensing the pictures under a noncommercial CC license, but IOC declined:

[Mutinyrural] Religion in the Valley of DEATH and the Great Escape into Stampede!: Finally, a face-saving formula was worked out. After receiving assurances that she would not be incarcerated, Nasreen surrendered to the court on 3rd August 1994, represented by a pool of qualified lawyers, including a former foreign minister.

[yueyu3.blogr.com - Blog (RSS 2.0)] yueyu3.blogr.com - stories - 2010-03-10-Flush-toilet: It is a commonly held misconception that when flushed, the water in a toilet bowl swirls one way if the toilet is north of the equator and the other way if south of the equator, due to the Coriolis effect usually, counter clockwise in the northern hemisphere, and clockwise in the southern hemisphere. In reality, the direction that the water takes is much more determined by the direction that the bowl's rim jets are pointed, and it can be made to flush in either direction in either hemisphere by simply redirecting the rim jets during manufacture.

[autokeymachine.blogr.com - Blog (RSS 2.0)] autokeymachine.blogr.com - stories - 2010-03-09-Inline-speed-skating: For best performance the boot must conform closely to the shape of the foot, so most inline speed skating boots are heat-moldable, which allows the user to re-shape the boots to some extent when heat is applied (by placing the boots in oven at 200F for 20 minutes after taking off the wheels, frames, and straps/buckles). The frame (sometimes called the chassis or plate) which holds the wheels is made of aircraft-quality aluminum and/or magnesium and usually mounts three, four, or five polyurethane wheels of between 78 mm and 110 mm diameter.

[onetheway.blogr.com - Blog (RSS 2.0)] onetheway.blogr.com - stories - 2010-03-09-Little-Saigon: Over the years, the vibrant community of Little Saigon has experienced frequent openings and closures of small mom-and-pop Vietnamese businesses, resulting in sights of some abandoned strip plazas. The changing landscape of the Vietnamese American population would bring a more multicultural flavor to Orange County, but as with Chinatowns, could potentially eliminate its identity as a "Little Saigon" as the population of foreign-born Vietnamese old-timers declines and more younger generations of Vietnamese American families attune to mainstream American culture (especially with a preference for fashionable malls over the Vietnamese ethnic malls in Little Saigon) and move on to affluent communities further away from the Little Saigon area.

[Richard Giles] The Olympics and Creative Commons Photographs « Richard Giles: The rules back then stated that “Images of the Olympic Games obtained by Spectators with cameras, video and/or audio devices or other means cannot be used for broadcast, publication or any commercial purposes under any circumstances.”  Of course, if you have access to an Olympic event or facility without a ticket, then you are not bound by this agreement.

[Advance computer tricks] Wikipedia - Recent changes [en]: Alternatively, if you have no Internet access at home, you may using your school-issued email address, telling us your preferred username.

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[Peer Review on Science Blogs] Why do some snakes have horns? : Tetrapod Zoology: * Someone really needs to embark on some massive creative commons project involving photos of the world's reptiles and amphibians. ALL the good images on the internet are copyrighted (which makes you wonder why they're on the internet at all).

[Bad Astronomy Blog] Canada, the smallest planet | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine: I’m not sure if you know this phil, but there are bots that troll wikipedia now and auto-revert vandalism almost instantaneously (anything with a profanity in it mainly). So while subtle, mostly true (points to statement above:)), amusing vandalisms like this may have to be manually reverted, most of them are virtually instantly put back to their previous version.

[The Long Tail] The Long Tail - Wired Blogs: I wrote an item on my Wi-Fi Networking News site about how the new AT&T/Starbucks deal fulfills something I've been saying for years: Unlimited public access Wi-Fi would be "free," but either it would actually cost nothing (two hours per day for exceedingly nominal purchase at Starbucks, lots of free cafes in the world, free airports, etc.) or cost a nominal value of about $20 per month to an individual to whom $20 per month was essentially "free"

[Whatanews4u.Sports] BBC - dot.life: Wikipedia on the wane?: Anybody familiar with resources created by the general public on the internet will be aware that accuracy is not a prime concern of certain highly active groups. For example, any discussion of Israel and Palestine is likely to be hijacked by people whose sole interest is in crowding out viewpoints expressed by their opponents in favour of their own, usually highly selective, views.

[marklynas.org - home] marklynas.org | Climate change explained: the impact of ...: So cognitive dissonance to one person is not quite the same cognitive dissonance to another. In trying to define the term to the satisfaction of all corners must be cut and tradeoffs made and points of views taken into account in order that the term cognitive dissonance can be used in a way which is actually useful and fulfills some sort of purpose.

[Roger Ebert's Journal] I met a character from Dickens - Roger Ebert's Journal: Like many other young men in London starting out on a new career, I knew that Jermyn was precisely the place to go to get fitted out, but I also knew I was culturally unprepared for the place, and I found the whole experience fascinating. The fact that I had grown up on the Canadian prairies and had first come to London 6 years earlier with nothing but a backpack, a working holidaymaker visa, no plans, no prospects, and certainly no money, added further excitement to the experience as I graduated to the the wacky comfort and eccentric opulence of the shops on Jermyn from the drab, impersonal unkindness of the typical high street shop.

[Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing] at ET by Share Google Buzz Opinions expressed in the article are ...: If you assume that the WSJ sells out all their display media on all pages that these people land on at an average of $10, (a high assumption, even for WSJ, for avg sell out ecpm for all impressions on all pages…remember: if there are three units per page, this assumes WSJ.com will sell out all pages on the site at a $30 average page CPM)…but let’s assume $10 CPM for all impressions…that means these people WSJ loses from google would have to be people who AVERAGE 15-20 page views, per day, every single day, AND that all 15 of those page views are sold out at a $30 page ECPM…That is idiotic…these are people who click on a link from google to get to WSJ, and who likely average 1 page view per visit from google, and fewer than 5 visits per month. Your assumptions for opportunity cost are off by at least an order of magniutude, and probably more than that.

[Scope] Scope » Blog Archive » A Drug By Any Other Name: Gone are the days of the infamous Chevy Nova, when sales of a car that sounded spacey and energetic in the United States flopped in Spanish-speaking countries because no va means “doesn’t go.” Now, stories sound more like this: The branding company Nametag International was preparing a drug called Soarus for international distribution when its linguists found out about the Yiddish word tsouris, meaning “trouble.” For a warmer reception, they changed its name to Soarian before marketing it in Israel.

[PressThink] PressThink: If I Didn't Build it, They Wouldn't Come: Citizen ...: "In a lot of ways, journalists have decided that journalism is something journalists do," said Slashdot.org editor Rob Malda in an email. "That's sort of elitist, but I won't piss on their parade and really contest that: We're just not journalists."

[Spread Firefox - The Home of Firefox Community Marketing] Community @ SFx | Spread Firefox: After 8 months, 281 proposals received from 156 volunteers, today we start the voting for the Proposals finalists, so, I want to invite to all of you to visit the Mozilla México website and vote for your favorite! the form is on the right sidebar and the images on the first post.

[Making Light] Making Light: Grep that spool: This print-privileging attitude must not be evenly distributed across WP--as I mentioned above, I keep running into, if not resistance to, at least ignoring of standard print reference tools, particularly in the entries connected to SF terminology and taxonomy. The problem there seems to be a preponderance of self-taught SF/literary critics reluctant to acknowledge that there's a well-developed body of work that addresses issues such as what constitutes a genre or what the label "hard SF" indicates.

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[Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Japanese dolphin-hunting village featured in Oscar-winning 'The ...: “Our hope is the Japanese people will see this film and decide themselves whether animals should be used for meat and for entertainment,” Psihoyos said backstage after receiving the Oscar at the Academy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles.

[Global Updated Breaking News] The Cove Movie | Global Updated Breaking News: The Cove Movie Oscar Winner News At tonight’s Oscar awards, a documentary film entitled The Cove won the coveted best documentary award. A star from the film, Ric O’Barry, responded to the victory by raising a sign towards television cameras, which caused the cameras .

[Ocean Sentry - Defending Oceans and Whales] 'The Cove' star calls for federal investigation of SeaWorld ...: There’s an eerily timely connection between the death of SeaWorld trainer Dawn Brancheau, 40, who was killed Wednesday by the killer whale she was training, and the documentary The Cove, which is the frontrunner to win the Oscar for best documentary feature next Sunday, March 7.  The documentary is about dolphins that are slaughtered by fishermen outside a town in Japan after they are rejected by aquatic theme park operators looking for the next dolphin star.

[Diary of a Crossword Fiend] Diary of a Crossword Fiend » Blog Archive » Wednesday, 3/3/10: Non-fans of cross-referenced clues likely pitched a fit while solving this puzzle. You’d think the overall difficulty would have increased with the vagueness of the theme clues, but the fill seemed mostly pitched to an easy Wednesday level.

[Japanese Entertainment News Community] Town upset over 'The Cove' documentary inaccurate, say local fishermen: Fishermen in Taijicho, Wakayama Prefecture, are concerned about an Academy Award-nominated documentary about traditional dolphin hunting, which they claim is inaccurate. The US film, "The Cove," (wiki) was produced by an environmental .

[FirstShowing.net] Richard O'Barry's Doc 'The Cove' May Have Ended Dolphin Killing ...: While it would be nice to think that this documentary could end the slaughter of these animals I doubt this will last, more likely they have either postponed or moved the killing elsewhere, Japan's reliance on food resources from the sea is much too big an issue that it would stop the practice, you only have to look at the whaling and shark fishing inustries which have equally been condemmed by the worlds media but continues daily with the risk of making certain spieces extinct.

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[6ix Passions] Film Review > The Cove - 6ix Passions: While the dolphins are on their migratory passage in the month of September, the fishermen capture the dolphins and keep them captive in a cove with fishnets. In the morning, some dolphin trainers come to identified the best ones to be sold all over the world to oceanic museums and water parks.

[WoW.FXCiM.COM] WoW.FXCiM.COM » Blog Archive » The Cove Movie, The Cove wiki: The Cove Movie, The Cove wiki, The Cove is a 2009 Academy Award winning American documentary film about the annual killing of dolphins in a National Park at Taiji, Wakayama, in Japan.The film highlights that the number of dolphins killed is several times greater than the number of whales killed in the Antarctic, and claims that 23,000 dolphins and porpoises are killed in Japan every year. The migrating dolphins are herded into a hidden cove where they are netted and killed by means of spears and knives over the side of small fishing boats.

[24 Hours News Updates] Documentary Of The Cove Movie | 24 Hours News Updates: Documentary Of The Cove Movie:The Cove acceptance speech was one of the more memorable moment of the Academy Award broadcast was when Ric O'Barry, the subject of the documentary, held up a sign, but many viewers missed it because cameras quickly cut away.

[Entertainment Daily] Uzbek film director convicted for 'slanderous' documentary on ...: Director to donate to Japanese dolphin hunt townNARITA, Japan ”” The director of a secretly filmed documentary that shows the annual dolphin hunt of a Japanese town said Tuesday he'll give the town the profits from screenings in Japan ”” if they end the hunt. Louie Psihoyos, who could face arrest on trespassing charges from making "The Cove," arrived at the Tokyo International Film Festival and said he was prepared to face the consequences of making the documentary.

[born to be free ...] slaughtery of Dolphins in Denmark « born to be free ”¦: In the e-mail I received, the animal quoted was incorrect, the rite of passage line was false, the country was wrong, there seems to be a possibility of mass stranding with this species (Wikipedia), and there seems to be a complete lack of any effort on the part of the author to present anything like an argument of any kind.

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[Music] Where can I find mp3 free music downloads?: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/winmx”¦ Sourceforge top Filesharing projects http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/trove”¦ Wikipedia p2p list http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/category:fi”¦ Sourceforge Free Software List (often p2p resources) ...

[Untitled] » P2P: Pirate to Pirate towards actual Peer-to-Peer: Other examples are those of Applejuice (which includes Applejuice Client), BitTorrent (which includes ABC, Azureus, BitAnarch, BitComet, BitSpirit, BitTornado, BitTorrent, BitTorrent++, BitTorrent.Net, G3 Torrent, mlMac, ... See Peer-to- peer. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer-to-peer ; For a digest of A &M Records Inc. vs. Napster, see Volume 1, Issue 2, page 15 of the Philippine Quarterly IT Law Journal. ; Peer-to-peer. ...

[Blogger News Network] » How P2P Software like Limewire Compromises Personal and ...: Other well known peer to peer networks besides Limeware are WinMX, Kazaa, Azureus Bearshare, Zango and Morpheus. Parents should note that a lot of times, children download this software to share, or get video and music files.

[Educational CyberPlayGround] Educational CyberPlayGround - BitTorrent's Future? DHT, PEX and ...: The easiest way to think about DHT is to imagine it as a form of 'super tracker', in some ways a lot like WinMX and Kazaa of old. A large ad-hoc network of peers pass on information requests about torrents without a central server, .

[Sizlopedia] Best P2P File Sharing Applications: Get Morhpeus its based on music city and is fast too plus you will find more sources for download too…Kazaa, Limewire, Frostwire, I-Mesh, Grokster and all them are the same thing its from the same server, They are all based off the same gnutella servers and have the same files. If you guys love the gnutella network and there same files then just stay with Kaaza its the main source from the gnutella network while the others like Limeiwre and all them are just remakes of Kaaza with the same files and stuff now!

[Welcome to the Underground.] [STD] P2P Is My Hot Hot Sex « Welcome to the Underground.: Define STD: STD for The Underground Blog is short for Savy Tech Dude/Dudette. The STD story is my attempt to share some insight into some of my practices, as well as others as to how they are using technology to make their life better, saving money, or perhaps bettering the environment.

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[Drupal Jobs] Code Maintenance Engineer | Wikimedia Foundation | groups.drupal.org: This is not a Software QA Engineer role with a large company: The Wikimedia Foundation has a small, passionate technical team which keeps Wikipedia and Wikimedia's other projects running. In this role, you're responsible for dealing with a large share of incoming contributions from a global, decentralized volunteer community, reviewing code, helping to whip it into shape, integrating or fixing up dormant extensions and scripts, and supporting deployment.

[Addicted To Quack: FanPosts] Personal Fowl: A Social Experiment: This is a cool idea, but frankly the sample size is way too small to be significant, so you’re mostly going to end up with anecdotal evidence. Having said that, if you’re really going to do this for all 6 home games it should give you a look at somewhat of a cross-section of Oregon fans.

[Fast Cash Design . com] Website Design News - 129th Edition « Website Design News « News ...: We are delighted to announce that Future of Web Design will be returning to London for the 4th year running. Taking place from May 17th - 19th 2010 in the heart of London it will be packed full of great talks, workshops and networking …

[p2pnet news] p2pnet news » Blog Archive » 'Free VP8 and use it on YouTube': I haven’t used the bloated ill-performing Adobe Reader for many years now and have never felt any regret about ditching it, all thanks to a couple of good free readers. While not ideal due to their closed sourced nature, they are still a far better option than using Adobes monster.

[Christopher Blizzard] Christopher Blizzard · two cool things: ogg support in mozilla and ...: Basically because they're the free formats that are acceptable on Wikimedia Commons. The FUDmeisters may have gotten them excluded by name from the HTML5 spec, but they can be taken as read and Apple and .

[GameDevBlog] GameDevBlog: What's Your Favorite Wiki Software For Work?: (Name and email address are required. Email address will not be displayed with the comment.)

[Latest articles on Factoidz - RSS feed] Little Orpington Annie: The Perfect Backyard Poultry Choice as ...: The Orpington chicken is ideal for they are tame, calm birds, heavyset and therefore flightless as well as good egg-producers. Having a male Orpington might be beneficial too for the males are very protective of their female harem, although the females will brood easily (seek to hide a nest and hatch chicks) so consideration here must be observed as well.

[HostingTopics.info] Hosted Data Center Provider, Digital Realty Trust, Welcomes Capgemini: Eric Boonstra, Commercial Director at EvoSwitch remarked, ”We are strong supporters of Wikimedia and their Wikipedia publishing project in particular, confirms The Foundation’s operations coincide with the objectives of our own organization, to keep the Internet ‘open’ and stimulate freedom of expression and the transmission of knowledge via the Internet.

[Apolitically Incorrect » IronPython] Apolitically Incorrect » WPF - SVG Graphics and XAML - Part 3: Much like XAML created with the Adobe Illustrator plug-in, there are often discrepancies between the source SVG and the final image. XamlTune struggled to consistently portray complex gradients (making use of alpha transparency) as well as to properly render shadows.

[Boycott Novell] Links 27/2/2010: Kolivas' New Patches, Predictions for Sub ...: This version of Linux is ideally suited to low-power, high-performance, embedded systems. The APS3 family of processors comprises modern, powerful processors, specifically designed for embedded systems, featuring a tiny silicon footprint, says the company.

[prizeKing.com | Blog | Unique online payments gateway. Increase your revenues with mobile payments. Reward your most loyal users with prizes!] Best Mobile Industry Twitter Lists: The new capped data packages, fuelled by further competition, will see a total revamp of the mobile media market. It will no longer be based on portals but on direct services by content and services providers via open source phones and mobile-friendly Internet-based services.

[The Silent Number] The Silent Number: Myths debunked: YouTube, please use Ogg Theora ...: "If [youtube] were to switch to theora and maintain even a semblance of the current youtube quality it would take up most available bandwidth across the Internet." --Chris DiBonaAll right, it's time to fight back against this FUD and address every argument made against Ogg Theora for HTML 5 and YouTube. The whole point of the HTML 5 video tag is to eliminate the need for proprietary Flash plugins so are we really going to replace one proprietary piece of technology with yet another piece of proprietary technology?

[Sataguini] Webmonkey: In an ideal world, the web would have a built-in identity solutions ”” websites would automatically know who you are when you arrive. In the real world, however, almost every website has its own sign up and authentication process, endless forms enticing .

[Blog - Stack Overflow] Stack Overflow Creative Commons Data Dump - Blog - Stack Overflow: This is an extremely large database (1.0GB uncompressed), and without indexing queries can take minutes to complete. the file index.sql contains sqlite expressions that will create indexes on each integer field in the database, as well as the badges table name field, as it might be helpful to select or group by the name of the badge.

[Ryamac's Robot Blog] Computer Hardware Interfacing: This happens when the receiver has been switched off for several weeks, has been stored without batteries or has travelled approximately 300 km or more since the last position fix. The second is a warm start is can take as little as 45 seconds to get a position fix but the almanac data needs to be available and the time of the receiver has to be correct but the ephemeris data may be outdated.

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[wikimediatech timeline] Wikimedia Tech Team (wikimediatech) 's status on Friday, 09-Oct-09 ...: Wikimedia Tech Team wikimediatech. logmsgbot: brion synchronized php-1.5/wmf-config/InitialiseSettings.php 'crank wgClickTrackThrottle to 1:1 to see what .

[Living the Web 2.0] Microsoft Directory Synchronization Services (MSDSS) - Internet ...: The section examines best practices for organizing your sites, and takes a look at Semantic Media Wiki, which is a new project from the Wikimedia foundation that has been started in an effort to address this problem, Wikis Wikipedia.

[http://newilluminati.blog-city.com/newsfeed/feeds.htm] Earth's Magnetic Field, Resonance and Us [newilluminati.blog-city.com]: I also did not account for surface penetration of the very low fundamental frequency near 7.5Hz, which would shorten the path and increase the frequency perhaps offsetting the other frequency decreasing factors. If Earth were homogeneous in her crust's makeup (which it is not) then these factors would create a consistent measurement of base resonance frequencies at most points on Earth.

[Technology RSS Feed] Sybase Mobilizes Enterprise Cloud Computing | BNET Technology Blog ...: Sybase launched new product offerings for the iPhone with an eye toward increasing the smartphone's enterprise functionality. Among the features are administrative policy lockdown control and bi-directional synchronization between iPhone and database.

[1ste Gimnechiske Compagnie] 1ste Gimnechiske Compagnie » Blog Archive » Are we depending too ...: I am not sure if your comment was Spam or if it is an authentic reply, I had a quick look at your site, and all I can see is excerts from thousands of bloggs with links to them. If your post can make my blogg more visited by REAL people, than please let them :D

[TechCrunch] Biggest Battle Yet For Social Networks: You, Your Identity And ...: Since both Facebook and MySpace have been hacked frequently enough over the past year alone, I think this is still cause of concern that tens of millions of people may not be adequately aware of as they post personal contact information and pictures of their children as well as connect with people they think they know but who may be Internet predators.

[TheBrain | Dynamic Mind Mapping Software] TheBrain | Dynamic Mind Mapping Software » Blog Archive » Moving ...: Almost all interfaces today, with the exception of TheBrain visual user interface, are limited to organizing information into hierarchies, where a piece of information can only be categorized into one place. For simple applications this is fine, but for users engaging in more complex business processes, it is simply inadequate.

[La Jornada Sin Fronteras] Motorola Mobile Phone - Cheap Motorola: Send and receive email, synchronize your cell phone contacts and calendar with your PC via MS Outlook. Mobile Phone Tools has complete Outlook integration.

[Jeffrey Dach MD Bio-Identical Hormone Blog] Jeffrey Dach MD Bio-Identical Hormone Blog: Pulsed ElectroMagnetic ...: Merrill Garnett, SELECTED ABSTRACTS + TECHNICAL WRITINGS. Electrogenetics is the basis for designing medicines that can short circuit the electrical charges in cancer cells and produce their selective electrocution.

[Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Top 10 Wiki Software: It is one of the most powerful wiki software on the Internet.This is a free wiki software used by Wikipedia, many wikis and other projects of the non-profit WikiMedia Foundation. MediaWiki supports multiple languages, website user styles, index of content items, edit tracking, talk pages and a lot more.

[From the Canyon Edge - :-Dustin Kirkland] From the Canyon Edge - :-Dustin Kirkland: Slashdot (Power Capping ...: is an open source project from the IBM Linux Technology Center which provides an energy use monitor and power capping enforcement tools (just what the Slashdot article is discussing!)We partnered with the LTC, working with Darrick Wong, to deliver this technology as a package in Ubuntu Universe.

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[CNET News.com] Google donates $2 million to Wikimedia | Deep Tech - CNET News: Wikimedia is funded primarily by individual donations, the organization said. In its fund-raiser for 2009 and 2010, 240000 people donated more than $8 million--three quarters of Wikimedia's budget.

[Geek.com] Google donates $2 million to Wikimedia Foundation | Geek.com: Wikimedia Foundation announced today that Google has donated $2 million to help continue the development of Wikipedia and other projects.  The funds are intended to support Wikipedia’s bandwidth costs and “multimedia needs”.

[mysticalscent..com] Google donates $2 million to Wikimedia | News Tecnology ...: Google donates $2 million to Wikimedia. The search colossus is helping to fund the group that operates Wikipedia, founder Jimmy Wales says.

[MediaPost | Online Media Daily] MediaPost Publications Google Gives Wikimedia $2 Mil 02/17/2010: "However," notes The Register (UK), "while the gift will secure Wikipedia's financing for the time being, the site still faces the problem of a decline in the number of footsoldiers willing to edit the site for free." This marks Google's first donation to the foundation, which is expected to support core operational costs, including investments in technical infrastructure.

[Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Blog] Google Donates $2 million to Wikipedia Foundation: WASHINGTON - Tech giants Microsoft and Yahoo reached a long-awaited partnership Wednesday in a bid to challenge Google, which holds a 65 percent market share in online search. Under a 10-year deal, websites from both companies would use Microsoft's Bing search engine, which could now integrate Yahoo's considerable trove of search technology.

[Keegy - United States] Keegy United States - Google Gives $2 Million to Wikimedia ...: This time, the search giant has donated $2000000 to the Wikimedia Foundation, the organization that runs and maintains Wikipedia.The donation, in true social media fashion, was announced via tweets from Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales and Wikimedi .

[ProlX.com] Google donates $2 million to Wikimedia | ProlX.com: The search colossus is helping to fund the group that operates Wikipedia, founder Jimmy Wales says. Also: 958 million Wiki edits and counting.

[Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Blog] Google gives $2 million to foundation behind Wikipedia, matching ...: Study suggests doctors could add to Wikipedia NEW YORK ”” Researchers are suggesting that doctors could be spending more time writing and editing Wikipedia pages on medical topics, despite questions that have been raised about the collaborative online encyclopedia's credibility. Medical professionals should recognize that Wikipedia has become a major online source of health information for consumers, researchers wrote in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

[MarketplaceJA Blog] Wikimedia Received $2 M Grant From Google | MarketplaceJA Blog: Wikimedia board member Jimmy Wales, who was a key figure in the creation of Wikipedia, announced the grant on Tuesday on twitter and said a formal statement will be made today. The statement was in fact released, but the full details are not yet clear.

[Necklace weblog, Necklace weblogs] Necklace weblog, Necklace weblogs » Blog Archive » Ring ...: Some properties of rings follow directly from the ring axioms through very simple proofs. The set of all real numbers, R, with its natural ring structure and the standard topology forms a topological ring.

[2FRESHâ™ | Fresh Blogâ™ | Inspiration, knowledge and other fresh stuff from 2FRESHâ™] 2FRESHâ™ | Fresh Blogâ™ | Inspiration, knowledge and other fresh ...: Google and Wikimedia did indeed make a formal announcement of the grant, saying the funds will support technical infrastructure to support growing traffic and to help make Wikipedia "easier to use and more accessible."

[BN's blog] Wikimedia Storyboard: Some stuff I’ll still have to review further at some point is how to make the stories searchable, how to best internationalize the stories and how I’ll implement the “share” features.

[Wikimedia UK Blog] Mary Rose Trust releases photographs onto Wikipedia « Wikimedia UK ...: Wikimedia UK is currently organising Britain Loves Wikipedia, a free photography contest to be held in participating museums across the UK throughout February, with the resulting images being used to illustrate Wikipedia articles. Previous content partnerships with Wikimedia in other countries have included the Bundesarchiv and Deutsche Fotothek in Germany, the Tropenmuseum in The Netherlands, Regionarkivet in Sweden and Queensland Museum, Australia.

[TechCrunch] $3 Million Donation For The Sum Of All Human Knowledge: Although there’s no real reason why a not-for-profit shouldn’t get its money from ads anymore than Oxfam shouldn’t make a profit on second-hand books and clothes, businesses don’t generally run on donations and charities don’t generally run on ad revenue.

[Apple Investor] Google's Latest Philanthropic Interest: Wikipedia [UPDATED ...: Most recently, Google and the Wikimedia Foundation have partnered to support translation of Wikipedia content into key languages with relatively small Wikipedia editions. Google’s Translation Toolkit supports direct online translation of Wikipedia articles, and has been used by Google in Wikipedia translation pilot projects with speakers of Arabic, Hindi, and Swahili.

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[Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Blog] Google gives $2 million to foundation behind Wikipedia, matching ...: EBay founder's group commits $2M to WikipediaNEW YORK ”” The organization behind Wikipedia is getting a $2 million commitment from a philanthropic investment group started by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar. Omidyar Network's grant over two years will support Wikimedia Foundation's key goals of bringing free educational content to people around the world and of supporting more people to help create that content.

[Digital Daily] Wikimedia Foundation Receives Omidyar Network Grant | John ...: Former-eBay-exec-turned-Omidyar-partner Matt Halprin will become the ninth member of the Wikimedia Board of Trustees as part of the deal.

[Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Blog] Investment Technology Group names former J.P. Morgan trader to board: EBay founder's group commits $2M to WikipediaNEW YORK ”” The organization behind Wikipedia is getting a $2 million commitment from a philanthropic investment group started by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar. Omidyar Network's grant over two years will support Wikimedia Foundation's key goals of bringing free educational content to people around the world and of supporting more people to help create that content.

[碧天情海] 2010年阅读理解新增文章_碧天情海_百度空间: Separately, the Omidyar Network, a philanthropic investment group started by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, said on Tuesday it is committing $2 million over two years to the Wikimedia Foundation.Omidyar Network's grant will support Wikimedia's goals of bringing free educational content to people around the world and supporting more people to help create that content.

[VentureBeat] Wikipedia gets $2M from Omidyar Network | VentureBeat: The investment firm was started by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, so the two groups seem like an obvious fit, with their shared do-gooder missions and tech roots. Wikipedia, of course, is extremely popular (the press release cites comScore numbers showing the site receives 300 million unique monthly visitors and is the .

[FSI Stanford News, Events, Publications] Using Technology to Catalyze Large-scale Social Change - FSI Stanford: Prior to Omidyar Network, Stephen served as the Chief Executive of the BBC World Service Trust, where he led a period of sustained growth that included building programs in more than 40 countries in the developing world. Stephen helped establish the Trust’s international reputation as one of the largest and most successful organizations using media and communications to improve the lives of the world’s poor and promote better governance and transparency worldwide.

[Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Blog] Craigslist founder Craig Newmark says eBay commitment didn't last long: SAN FRANCISCO - E-commerce giant eBay has settled its long-running legal feud with the founders of Skype, clearing the way for a $2-billion sale of the internet telephony pioneer, the company announced Friday. Under the terms of the settlement, Skype founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis will get a 14 percent stake in the consortium buying Sykpe from eBay in return for an undisclosed cash investment and the withdrawal of their lawsuits.

[AWEARNESS: The Kenneth Cole Blog] The Top 25 Philanthropic Givers: The Omidyar Network, eBay founder Pierre Omidyar's brain child, is Barrons pick as the world's most effective philanthropy. Some of the recent projects the Omidyar Network have been involved with are land rights for the poor, .

[The Ushahidi Blog] Announcing Funding from the Omidyar Network - The Ushahidi Blog: We needed to move from just two core developers (David Kobia and Henry Addo) so we recently brought on Ken Kasina and Brian Herbert to help carry the load, especially as far working to address issues and feature requests that have been brought to our attention by Ushahidi implementers. Additionally, Caleb Bell has joined the team to work on the front-end, so that the programmers can remain dedicated to the back-end work.

[DealBook] Wikipedia Gets $2 Million From Omidyar Network - DealBook Blog ...: Omidyar Network, the philanthropic investment firm, just announced that it was making a $2 million grant to the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit group that runs the online encyclopedia Wikipedia. This is Omidyar's first grant to the Wikimedia Foundation.

[Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Blog] Wikipedia organization gets $2M commitment from investment group ...: NEW DELHI - Microsoft founder Bill Gates will receive the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development here today. The award will be received on behalf of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which has been providing grants for public health activities, notably in the areas of HIV/AIDS prevention and communication.

[The Center for Social Media] Public Media 2.0: Dynamic, Engaged Publics -- Publications ...: In the United States, this concern inspired such initiatives as the Hutchins Report of the Commission on the Freedom of the Press (1947), the Carnegie Commission on Public Broadcasting (1966), the Poynter Institute (1975), and other journalistic standards and training bodies. Foundations also supported media production and infrastructure, including the Ford Foundation’s commitment to public broadcasting, the Rockefeller Foundation’s investment in independent filmmakers, and the John D.

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[bemoko's mobile web] Step by Step : Create a Firefox Search Plugin for Your MediaWiki ...: Firefox searching mediawiki with suggestions I just discovered the benefits of creating custom Firefox search plugins the other day, having hooked up a Firefox search plugin for our internal MediaWiki which I shared with my colleagues. click on the link to install the plugin ”¦ and of course circulate the URL to this HTML page with your colleagues so they can do the same.

[The Weblog of (a) David Jones] Alternative audience response systems - web, twitter and mobile ...: Votapedia is apparently a free service offered by a project within CSIRO that uses mobile phones and the web (in the form of a MediaWiki). Mobile phone usage doesn't cost the participant as their call gets the busy signal.

[dale lane] Using .NET WebBrowser to create a mobile wiki « dale lane: * possibility to add a “Folder” button on top menu, in order to quickly accessing the folder containing the homepage and the various wiki files. Because I use a Mac I can't use the Desktop side, but the PPC side works very nice.

[PuneTech] Suggest ways for Pune Techies to collaborate online and win a ...: We can either hack MediaWiki so that all email threads from the mailing list are archived at a single place and then from there, a moderator can attach the contents of relevant ones to a “relevant” MediaWiki page. Another possibility (at the risk of .

[I'd Rather Be Writing - Tom Johnson] A Few Surprises in Using a Wiki for Documentation | I'd Rather Be ...: I realize that authoring in a tool like Flare produces HTML output, which is a web format, but I dislike the static nature of authoring in a help authoring tool and then uploading the content to a file directory to appear in a browser. There’s a disconnect.

[Full Circle Online Interaction Blog] Links to this post - Full Circle Associates: No-page-refresh user interfaces that work well over slow dialup and cell/mobile phone lines. This may require use of some proprietary languages for now, but, over time, something like Python could be supported uniformly.

[Untitled] Public dreams of a blind ICT user | ePractice: Additional to improvements for the Mediawiki user interface, I would like to translate the German help page for blind users, first into English and after that I will try to find translators for other languages. A huge problem for the whole accessibility project is that there are only volunteers who are contributing in their leisure time but nearly all desirable solutions would need the work of experienced Mediawiki programmers.

[phpFox Company Blog] phpFox Company Blog » phpFox2 Alpha 1 Released: The goal for this release is to give developers a head start to understand how phpFox2 will work so they can start planning on updating their current products to be compatible once phpFox2 goes stable. However, if you are not a developer and have a license with us you are more then welcome to download the product from our clients area.

[nixCraft Linux Sys Admin Blog] 10 Greatest Open Source Software Of 2009: Audacity is a free all in one audio editor and recorder like GoldWave software. You can use Audacity to record live audio, convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs, and edit sound files or just create personal ringtons for mobile phones.

[Clicknoise] Clicknoise » Blog Archive » Laboratory Life: Seeking input from ...: So I’m redesigning a course I’ve taught a few times now (CMNS 253, which I’m teaching right now, too) to transform it from a lecture/tutorial format that uses an all-in-one wiki/blog/CMS (Howard Rheingold’s Social Media Classroom build of Drupal) into, well, a lecture/lab course in writing for social, mobile and pervasive media (using Mediawiki, Wordpress, Twitter, Digg, and a whole ecosystem of other open-platform mobile and social media tools).

[bbPress Blog] bbPress » 2009-12-09 Meetup: What I'm saying is, just because there's a plugin out there to perform a specific task in WP, doesn't mean it will magically work exactly like it is today for bbPress. There's lots of plugins that don't work with BuddyPress, and needed updates or rewrites to focus on that specific functionality of BP.

[Blog - Stack Overflow] Potential Markup and Editing Choices - Blog - Stack Overflow: It’s a bit arrogant and self-defeating to expect people to have to learn either Markdown or HTML in order to post questions and answers (even if your audience is developers). Also, if stackoverflow.com allows articles, I want to be able to write them in my own editor and upload them to stackoverflow.com.

[WebWorkerDaily] 15 Productive Uses for a Wiki - WebWorkerDaily: [...] The Web Worker Daily blog recently detailed fifteen ways to make use of a wiki.  I’m happy to report that we use our company wiki for at least eight of those.  As our company grew, it meant more people and more client information to keep track of.  Searching for information on a shared network drive became too time consuming and frustrating.  We had no effective way to compile, store, access and edit our most important information.  Client histories, guidelines on writing .php code, design preferences, employee handbooks, phone lists, ongoing projects and the like were just not as available as we needed them to be.

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[Untitled] CWahi - MediaWiki 1.15.1 Installation Tutorial - Part 3 ...: Part 1: www.youtube.com Part 2: www.youtube.com You can watch the full-length version of this video on my blog at drakmyth.cwahi.net This video will walk you through installing mediawiki 1.15.1 on the cwahi web-hosting service. cwahi offers unlimited storage space, unlimited bandwidth, unlimited e-mail storage, and a completely ad-free experience all for one amazing low price FREE!!

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[JP's Clog] JP's Clog: Google and Wikipedia ”” Separated at Birth? - GigaOM: In a statement about Google’s donation to Wikipedia on Tuesday, co-founder Sergey Brin called the site: “one of the greatest triumphs of the internet” and “an invaluable resource to anyone who is online.”

[WebProNews - Google] Google Gives $2 Million To Wikimedia Foundation | WebProNews: Courtesy of Google, the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation has received a significant gift. Google donated $2 million to the organization, which is responsible for keeping Wikipedia up and running.

[CdrInfo.com Just Published News] Google Donates $2 million to Wikipedia: Most recently, Google and the Wikimedia Foundation have partnered to support translation of Wikipedia content into key languages with relatively small Wikipedia editions. Google's Translation Toolkit supports direct online translation of Wikipedia articles, and has been used by Google in Wikipedia translation pilot projects with speakers of Arabic, Hindi, and Swahili.

[Pulse2 - Technology News And Reviews] Wikimedia Foundation Receives $2 Million Grant From Google: stated Google co-founder Sergey Brin. “This vast repository of community-generated content is an invaluable resource to anyone who is online.”  The Wikimedia Foundation operates several websites including Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikinews, Wikimedia Commons and Wikisource.

[The Wikipedia Review] Wiki t-shirts - The Wikipedia Review: Some say Wikipedia can't be trusted, but I think it's great for getting basic info. Like, did you know that the Civil War and the War of 1805 were actually separate battles, despite occurring in the same century?

[TopINews Blog] Google donates to support Wikimedia Foundation || TopINews Blog: Google co-found Sergey Brin said, “Wikipedia is one of the greatest triumphs of the internet. This vast repository of community-generated content is an invaluable resource to anyone who is online.”

[CEOWORLD Magazine] Google Gives $2 Million to Wikimedia Foundation, What about Google ...: Google (GOOG, news: 526.43 0.00 0.00%, cap: 167.4B, 1yr target: 678.31) has acquired reMail, a company that provides adv

[Vator.tv news stories and report] VatorNews - Wikimedia Foundation receives $2M from Google: The Wikimedia Foundation recently ran a large-scale campaign across Wikipedia and its other sites, calling to users to donate whatever they could, in an effort to keep sites like Wikipedia free for users, free from advertising, and free from influences that could jeopardize the sites' attempt to maintain neutrality.

[DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich] Google donates $2 Million to Wikimedia Foundation | DLD - Digital ...: Google has donated an incredible amount of $2 million to Wikimedia Foundation, the group behind the widely used Wikipedia reference site, to support "one of the greatest triumphs of the Internet.", as Google co-founder Sergey Brin said in a statement. He further said that this vast repository of community-generated content is an invaluable resource to anyone who is online.

[D' Technology Weblog] Google donated $2 Million to Wikimedia Foundation, Jimmy Wales says: Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia founder on Twitter says that Google has donated $2 million to the Wikimedia Foundation. The official statement is supposedly be made on Wednesday.

[Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Blog] Google Donates $2 million to Wikipedia Foundation: WASHINGTON - Tech giants Microsoft and Yahoo reached a long-awaited partnership Wednesday in a bid to challenge Google, which holds a 65 percent market share in online search. Under a 10-year deal, websites from both companies would use Microsoft's Bing search engine, which could now integrate Yahoo's considerable trove of search technology.

[TechKive] TechKive » Blog Archive » Google Donates $2 Million To Wikimedia ...: According to a Tweet just sent from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales , Google has donated $2 million to the Wikimedia Foundation. Wales says the official announcement will be made tomorrow.

[The Book Designer] 4 Incredible Free Sources for Photos to Use in Your Book or Blog ...: Instead of each artist or creator having to think up which rights they want to keep and which they are willing to license, and under what conditions, Creative Commons establishes a uniform licensing that can be used and understood by anyone. This allows the creator of the work the freedom to assign the license she wants it to carry, so others can share it, remix it, or use it commercially.

[Wikimedia UK Blog] Britain Loves Wikipedia « Wikimedia UK Blog: Chair of Wikimedia UK, Michael Peel, said, “Museum collections hold a vast range of objects that have great cultural significance and enhance our knowledge of our origins but are not as well covered on Wikipedia as they deserve to be. With ‘Britain Loves Wikipedia’, we hope to increase the number of photographs on Wikipedia for the world to share, enjoy and learn from.”

[TechSheep] TechSheep » Blog Archive » Google Donates $2 Million To Wikimedia ...: Google Donates $2 Million To Wikimedia Foundation ”” According to a Tweet just sent from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, Google has donated $2 million to the Wikimedia Foundation. Wales says the official announcement will be made tomorrow .

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[Tech Eye - Latest technology headlines] Google lashes out dosh to Wikimedia | Internet news | TechEye ...: They probably weren't expecting this, but Wikimedia has received $2 million from Google in a fit of generosity.

[TECH.BLORGE.com] Google donates $2 million to Wikimedia parent group - TECH.BLORGE.com: Based on past history, it’s extremely hard to see the Wikimedia foundation agreeing to cede any form of editorial control or become involved in advertising partnerships. That most likely means this is purely a case of Google recognizing that a strong Wikipedia improves the overall internet experience, which has a knock-on benefit for Google’s bottom line.

[Tech Support Forums - TechIMO.com] Google Donates $2M to Wikimedia Foundation - Tech Support Forums ...: Google's move to help monetarily support the Wikimedia Foundation - the organization behind Wikipedia - is interesting considering Google's efforts to develop Knol, its own community-based reference resource.

[Tech Readers] Google Gives Donation of $2 Million to WikiMedia Foundation | Tech ...: Having said that, donation came almost after a year and a half since the launch of Google’s Wikipedia competitor “Google Knol”. Google Knol’s epic failure might be the reason for the donation to wikipedia.

[D' Technology Weblog] Google donated $2 Million to Wikimedia Foundation, Jimmy Wales says: Earlier this year, Wikimedia announced that it has raised $8 million for the 2009-10 fiscal, exceeding its goal for the year by $500K. The foundation recently added Craigslist founder Craig Newmark to its advisory board, which also includes tech visionary Mitch Kapor.

[Tech News From All Over The Net] Google Donates $2 Million To Wikimedia Foundation | Tech News From ...: The Wikimedia Foundation is a non-profit that focuses on the development of free, multilingual content to wiki-based projects. The Wikimedia Foundation operates Wikipedia, but has also helped develop Wikimedia Commons, Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikinews, and Wikiversity.

[MarketplaceJA Blog] Wikimedia Received $2 M Grant From Google | MarketplaceJA Blog: Wikimedia board member Jimmy Wales, who was a key figure in the creation of Wikipedia, announced the grant on Tuesday on twitter and said a formal statement will be made today. The statement was in fact released, but the full details are not yet clear.

[Technology RSS Feed] Google donates $2m to Wikimedia | Top Industry News, Statistics ...: The donation is in line with Google's generosity to foundations that promote a faster and more open web, but it is not yet clear if the move....

[The Tech Herald Internet News] Google helps maintain Wikipedia with $2 million donation - Internet: According to the foundation’s official release, the funds will be channelled into operational costs associated with the Wikimedia Foundation, including investments in technical infrastructure that support rapidly-increasing global traffic and capacity demands. The cash will also be directed at efforts to make the Wikipedia archives more accessible and even easier to use.

[TechSheep] TechSheep » Blog Archive » Google Donates $2 Million To Wikimedia ...: Google Donates $2 Million To Wikimedia Foundation ”” According to a Tweet just sent from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, Google has donated $2 million to the Wikimedia Foundation. Wales says the official announcement will be made tomorrow .

[TechKive] TechKive » Blog Archive » Google Donates $2 Million To Wikimedia ...: According to a Tweet just sent from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales , Google has donated $2 million to the Wikimedia Foundation. Wales says the official announcement will be made tomorrow.

[Tech Blog] Google and Wikipedia, BFF | Tech Blog | FT.com: Equally significant is the very public love-in this has provoked, with Wales claiming the donation had cemented “the long-time alignment and friendship between Google and Wikimedia.”

[Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk] Wikipedia wins the Google lottery - but why? | Technology ...: google my good pimp [chaparone with class -California has IT] the next step or rather the ultimate level is for youtube to supply the AUDIO DIMENTION, as an [wiki] encyclopedia that talks! and has more pictures than you can dream of [google], and ultimately the "GOOGLE ALARM CLOCK" will project large images of your subject on the wall and "tell you the story" [with text as well] or add some mood elements like music/sound mixed with the AUDIO of text or lecture and logic.

[ICT4D Blog] ICTlogy » ICT4D Blog » UOC Tech Talks. Kul Wadhwa: Online ...: Wikimedia is about the community, about volunteering. Since the project kicked off in 2001, there have been created 13 million articles in 271 languagesw, 17 million pages, 325 million edits, 330 million visits monthly, 100,000 active contributors (edit 5 times a month at least), over 50 books published on the Wikimedia phenomena, etc.

[google android os blog] Wikimedia Hires Danese Cooper as New CTO | google android os blog: From OStatic blogs Cnet's Stephen Shankland reports that the Wikimedia Foundation has hired open source advocate Danese Cooper as its Chief Technical Officer.

[Technology News] Google donates $2 million to Wikimedia parent group @ Technology News: In a statement received by CNET, Google co-founder Sergey Brin said “Wikipedia is one of the greatest triumphs of the Internet. This vast repository of community-generated content is [...]

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[Seb's Open Research] Seb's Open Research: Let me just sum it up by saying that lots happened and some difficult decisions were made. Among the most significant outcomes: my family and I made a decision to move back to Montreal, and I'm leaving the National Research Council of Canada.

[OntologWiki] OntologWiki: Ontology Summit 2010: lists) and virtual panel sessions (over augmented conference calls), and will culminate in a 2-day face-to-face workshop/symposium to be held on Mon & Tue, 15 & 16-March-2010 at NIST (Gaithersburg, Maryland, US) during which we will, among other things, distill our thoughts into a collaboratively developed Communiqué (and possibly even a range of follow-up projects and action items. ...

[clickforhelp] Gov 2.0 Leadership, Collaboration, and Public Engagement Symposium ...: All government employees and contractors are invited who would like to understand how to design or implement Gov 2.0 and social media innovative efforts involving leading a collaborative organization, internal collaboration, public engagement, crowding sourcing, contests, or social media tools within the workplace. This includes:

[μο.] Interaction Design (IxD) Resources: Journals, Conferences ...: Deadline Submission Deadline (research papers) (WikiSym 2010: International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration). Mar 5;

[OntologWiki] OntologWiki: Ontology Summit 2007: TomGruber initialized a community effort to distinguishing properties of ontologies as we know them in his post and the creation of the OntologyDistinctions page on this wiki (11OX) .SusanTurnbull featured the "community process" of this Summit on the Tue 2007.07.17 Collaborative Expedition Workshop (CEW#63 to be held at NSF, Arlington, VA, USA) as part of her exposition into the process, dynamics, potential and realities of a few of the exemplary virtual communities .

[User Experience Network] User Experience Network » Blog Archive » WikiSym 2009 (Orlando, FL ...: The International Symposium on Wikis (WikiSym) is the premier conference dedicated to wikis and related open collaboration systems and processes. WikiSym 2009 aims to explore and extend the thriving wiki community, bringing together researchers, practitioners, writers and scholars to gather, discuss and share knowledge and experience on all areas related to wikis and wiki philosophy, ranging from social to technical, .

[Organic Exchange.org] New Organic business Guide: We also set up an interactive wikibook-version at http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Organic_Business_Guide. You can edit the book there and thus further develop it. The French edition is in preparation and should be ready by mid March. ...

[Fast Company] Is Wikipedia in Decline? Scientists Search for Answers in ...: Eight years after launching, Wikipedia contains nearly 3 million articles submitted by users themselves and edited by others in the Wikipedia community. But while the site is still wildly popular for those trying to figure out who played in Super Bowl XXII, the name of Pink Floyd's original frontman, or how a convection oven works, the explosive growth that characterized its early years leveled in 2006 at around 60,000 new articles per month, declining by nearly a third since then.

[nettime-l] <nettime> Furtherfield Blog - Recent Posts of Interest on Media ...: More Info:This multi-blog is a place to intuitively explore media arts practice, together, as it occurs, to develop understanding and to learn, without any pressure to formulate complete arguments or to come up with answers. The blog was set up in Autumn 2006, initially as a place for informal,day to day exchange between members of the Furtherfield.org (www.furtherfield.org) team, including editors/reviewers.

[TRAIL BLAZERS] TRAIL BLAZERS Blog | The Dallas Morning News: While, I'm sure that the DMN and BELO have been enjoying the ride at the top for a time, y'all will be experiencing quite a different sensation as your corporation slides into oblivion. This will will most certainly happen if y'all continue to ignore what is happening in the world of communications.

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[Suite101: Teaching & Technology Articles] Online Tools for Classrooms: Using Wikis, Blogs and Threaded ...: Wikis sites may be shared publicly or closed so that only those with permission, usually via a password, may view and participate on the wiki. Another useful feature of the wiki is the discussion tab that permits discussion among contributors that is not featured directly on the wiki page.

[Time2news] BSE | Bombay Stock Exchange wiki | Time2news: Recently it has become the first national-level stock market to launch its website in Gujarati and Hindi to reach a larger number of investors. It has implemented a reporting platform for corporate bonds in India christened ICDM or Indian Corporate Debt Market, and a unique ticker-cum-screen hits the name “BSE Broadcast”, which provides information to the common man in the street.

[Miss Remmers' Review] Miss Remmers' Review: "Frozen Tears" Wiki: I wanted to show you a little of what I have been doing to prepare for the classroom - and I'm pretty proud of this. It's not as intricate as it will be if I use it in the future.

["And sometimes he's so nameless"] Death of an Atheist Forum; the lessons of history « "And sometimes ...: They will make new websites, write new books, and speak at new conventions. Where thousands of you dare not tread, thousands more unsuspecting atheists will fill the seats you won’t occupy, and buy the books you won’t read, and visit the websites you won’t support.

[The Learning Network] Just Google It? Developing Internet Search Skills - The Learning ...: If students are using the Internet to complete their homework, are schools requiring students to expose themselves to corporate advertisements in order to succeed academically? Do any ethical questions arise around the prevalence of corporate advertising in Web searching for academic purposes?

[/gg FTW!] ok we can work out a compromise - /gg FTW!: Pixellated Yeti Goodness. Dook's Avatar. Join Date: Sep 2008. Location: Awe-Stray-Yea? Posts: 652. Wiki Edits: 35. iTrader: (0). Dook is a jewel in the rough. IGN: Dookoon. Class: BEEG DISCO STICK! lt_mage. Level: 111+. Guild: Moogles ...

[Blogs for the NC State Community] Time To Talk Tech: In our reading, Wide Open Spaces Wikis Ready or Not, Lamb quotes the inventor of the internet, Tim Berners-Lee, as being upset that people were calling his, at that time, 1999 creation "interactive."  I like the passion you could feel in his statement that clicking on objects is not what he sees as interactivity.

[Latest Activity on TLNing] Online Courses in Info. Lit; Blogs & Wikis; and Open Educational ...: I've been lucky enough to teach some online courses for the University of Rhode Island.  They are all about promoting Info.

[Discounts on language, dance classes, events and parties in London] Englishtutors.info is here to make it easy for you to launch your ...: The teacher has full control over all settings for a course. There is a flexible array of course activities (Forums, Journals, Quizzes, Resources, Choices, Surveys, Assignments, Chats, Workshops), user logging and tracking, mail integration and much more.

[Public Intelligence Blog] Review: Wiki Government-How Technology Can Make Government Better ...: [See especially Chapter 21 in my new book that just went to the printer, INTELLIGENCE for EARTH: Clarity, Diversity, Integrity, & Sustainaabilty and is free online at Phi Beta Iota the Public Intelligence Blog, and my earlier wire-bound ....

[/gg FTW!] How is your 2010 going so far? - /gg FTW!: Join Date: Oct 2008. Posts: 527. Blog Entries: 4. iTrader: (1). Point will become famous soon enough. Default ... Sea Lycan. Boltstar's Avatar. Join Date: Jun 2008. Location: The Deep Blue Sea. Posts: 3500. Wiki Edits: 8. iTrader: (7). Boltstar has a spectacular aura about. Default ... Really, his internet + phone must fail for the next 4 years or so, so that we can have peace Oh and for the people that think that my bf can just break with his dad.. he can't. ...

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[Information Technology Market] U.S. Department of Energy Deploys Cloud Computing - Information ...: Several labs are exploring new collaborative social networking systems for communication with the public, for example Twitter (headlines with links), YouTube channel (video), and Flickr (photos) as distribution channels for news items.

[TechCrunch] AboutUs: A Wiki About Every Website: I am not an expert on fair use, and I think there’s a valid argument that AboutUs might qualify under the Copyright Act of 1976, but at the very least it’s going to be seen as highly questionable by many webmasters, and if they try to monetize these pages I would not be surprised if somebody decided to sue them, especially since many sites have terms of service which prohibit such automated spidering of content for this type of purpose. Again, I don’t know that there’s an enforceable violation of law here but since AboutUs has $1 million in the bank, somebody might take a punt in court.

[AIIM Knowledge Center Blog] AIIM Knowledge Center Blog: Webs and Wikis and Blogs, Oh My!: We will use wikis and blogs to communicate and collaborate and rather than email, perhaps Instant Messaging (IM) for those ad hoc times we need to contact someone. (Of course there is still the old fashioned way of using the telephone now and then.)

[REALNEO for all - Regional Economics Action Links North East Ohio] The fight for infrastructure bragging rights: perhaps bipartisan ...: plus the $400 million being invested in upgrading the current Cleveland-Pittsburgh Amtrak passenger service providing real, frequent, high-speed rail with an average speed in excess of 150-miles-per-hour. The distance between Cleveland and Pittsburg is about 125 miles, similar to the mileage between Cleveland and Columbus, except that Cleveland and Pittsburg metro areas are both substantially bigger than Columbus, providing more potentenal market for this highly specialize service. 

[TechCrunch] SocialText Putting A Little Social Into”¦Enterprise Wikis: Problem is that so many companies are running on tight budgets these days (at least the one that signs my paycheck is) and in many cases the decision makers for purchasing a product like this would be challenged to see the value of Socialtext without a clear explanation of how it could help their company to overcome their internal communications challenges and applying that to some meaningful ROI data. Personally (an professionally) I could really use something like this, but I fear that I may be the exception.

[What's In The Box?] Artisan System Becomes Jolt : What's In The Box?: Issue Tracking, Wiki, Technical Docs, Mail, Git, and the main website will be hosted there. Copies of Jira and Confluence will be used for the issue tracker and Wiki, respectively.

[Balloon Juice] Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Doug Feith's wiki: If neocons are that ghey for Feith then they should get a room, or a stall in an airport restroom and not shoot ....

[Symbian Blog] Symbian Is Open « Symbian Blog: Open sourcing a market-leading product in a dynamic, growing business sector is unprecedented.  Over 330 million Symbian devices have been shipped worldwide, and it is likely that a further 100 million will ship in 2010 with more than 200 million expected to ship annually from 2011 onwards.

[Learn Unity 3D] Learn Unity 3D » Blog Archive » Nintendo NES Power Glove + Arduino ...: Many people have enjoyed experimenting with external devices to control Unity, the most prominent in this context being Darwiin remote (or PC equivalent) which has been used alongside the plugin on the wiki in order to use the Wiimote in conjunction with Unity.

[Learnlets] Learnlets » Proliferating Portals: On the other hand, I do want users to seize control and create their own sites, and there are reasons for groups to create sites.  If you have hundreds of user communities, you should have hundreds of portals.  The real organizational principle, however, should be how the users think about it.  There are two ways to handle that: you can do good usability, with ethnographic and participatory methods of finding out how the users think about the world, or better yet, let the inmates run the asylum (and provide support, back to the facilitation message).

[TechCrunch] Anti-Jotspot/Google Post Deleted Under Pressure: Having been on the record as believing that Google is significantly overvalued, is nothing more than a one-trick pony (thus far) with a single, vulnerable revenue stream, etc., I think it’s worthwhile for shareholders and potential investors to learn that Google is not perfect in its execution and in this case, appears either so arrogant or incompetent (or both) that they’re alienating JotSpot stakeholders that helped make the company into a property worth acquiring.

[ffeathers -- a technical writer's blog] Gadgets on Confluence wiki pages - oh, and in JIRA and iGoogle ...: These are gadgets published by the same Confluence site as where they are displayed. Typically such a gadget would display information sourced from the Confluence site, such as an activity stream or a search function.

[Depleted Cranium] Depleted Cranium » Blog Archive » Why You Can't Build a Bomb From ...: However, the way the CANDU works you’d have trouble keeping it up with a good breed ratio and so what would have to be done is run it with some of the channels containing enriched uranium or something to keep the neutron flux up and then some of the channels would become irradiation channels and you’d run depleted uranium through those for breeding.

[Gary Fisher 29er Crew - Mountain Bike Racing Team] Aint no school like da old school”¦wiki, wiki « Gary Fisher 29er ...: Oh yeah, chromoly seat tube, Altus C50 drivetrain, Push Push shifters, hi tensile steel fork all rolled into one 35 lb package. Sweet.

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