Wikipedia
Background
Wikipedia (pronunciation ) is a free, multilingual, open content encyclopedia project operated by the United States-based non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its name is a portmanteau of the words wiki (a technology for creating collaborative websites) and encyclopedia. Launched in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, it is currently the largest, fastest-growing, and most popular general reference work on the Internet. Wikipedia is a project that attempts to summarize all human knowledge.
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...2007. Economics: a period of an economic contraction, sometimes limited in scope or duration as compared to a depression. Wikipedia: "Recessions or Crises since the Great Depression": There were 6. 3 lasted 2 years - and 3 lasted 1 year...so in doing the...
7 hours ago from
Zappos Blogs
...was not necessarily the typical prude you might imagine; the mere mention of sex did not make her blush. According to Wikipedia on the early stages of her activist career, she originally became concerned about the vulgarities displayed on TV when she was the...
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Associated Content
...revolutionary martyr. (But reading Waldrop’s stories, and his pithy afterwords to them, will keep your fingers busy hopping over to Wikipedia.) He loves pop-culture history, especially TV and movie, as much as he loves the official tyrant-and-war stuff. They...
9 hours ago from
PopMatters
...I know it's early in the morning, but perhaps this little logic lesson will bring you back to your high school days. From Wikipedia, a syllogism "is a kind of logical argument in which one proposition (the conclusion) is inferred from two others (the premises)...
9 hours ago from
Double-A Zone
...But it’s not that easy. Later on, even Encarta and Microsoft lost their value after resisting moving to the web and instead, Wikipedia was born. Today, Wikipedia.com is one of the world’s ten most popular websites and Encarta and Britannica have faded away....
10 hours ago from
Yahoo! Buzztracker
...an hour, but sent us all into a trance. It is called "overtone singing", and people tend to do it in snow-covered locations. Wikipedia has lots to say about overtone singing, but nothing to say about why people do it in the cold. Could the guy on the left...
11 hours ago from
Guardian Unlimited
...made of up very different kinds of snowflakes all connected together over an authentic idea on the rise in culture. Godin uses Wikipedia as an example of a successful movement. But Jimmy Wales didn't create a tribe, he created an organizing system so different...
11 hours ago from
Futurelab
...language. Thirty states have adopted English as their official language. Maryland, Pennsylvania and West Virginia do not, but Wikipedia says they have legislation in current session. 82.1 percent speak English, 10 percent speak Spanish." "If stimulus money...
11 hours ago from
The Herald-Mail Online
...Bear2theRight; DonSurber; CardMartini; AnechoicRoom; Brainster; SabotModerne; Gindy; Blogs4Bush; "JackLewis"; Cuanas; Wikipedia; DaouReport; Basil; Redstate; Sister Toldjah; Saddam'sfriends; McClaren; Dummocrats; Wuzzadem; Prestopundit; M'd O'Mama; Badgerblog; Disc'n'nTexan;...
12 hours ago from
THE ASTUTE BLOGGER
...we get schooled by them in the ways of the technological world and how things connect. I asked my nephew if he ever uses Wikipedia for research on his school projects -- to which he admitted that he does, but that the teachers do not encourage its use because...
13 hours ago from
Vancouver Sun
Last Week - About Wikipedia
...travelling from GMT-8 to GMT+2, so that's 10 time zones. Right now it's 9:05pm where I am, and it's 7:05am tomorrow morning in South Africa. It's not really possible to completely AVOID Jet Lag. It is JET-lag, and not bicycle-lag or walking-to-fast-lag. The...
7 days ago from
ComputerZen.com - Scott Hanselman's Weblog
...and for those that are not Internet savvy, it cvan lead to some anxious moments. Related - Inside the "Twilight" Romance: Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson? So - who will be the next famous name to die online? While Hollywood types always seem to have...
6 days ago from
National Ledger
...the picture of Reiser on his Wikipedia page has him looking older and wider than when we last saw him on television, he’s also alive and kicking. My bet is being a quiet period, a certain board that shall remain nameless is having some fun again. Previous...
6 days ago from
The Inquisitr
...thunk the plural females shouldoughta be like singular Female deans, eh? What, nobody from Bob Jones or Liberty? It’ll be refreshing to see an end brought to faith-based legal opinions. Love a duck! I don’t know diddly about Ms Kagan, but from past appearances...
6 days ago from
Think Progress
...(£30bn) offer arrived in January, the industry believed that the deal would appeal to Yahoo's stakeholders and go ahead. Yahoo rejected the offer, however, citing a search deal with Google as one of the main reasons. However, an upturn in the number of outsourcing...
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VNUNet.com
...the smirk on his face. Looks a lot movie star Michael Douglas, doesn’t he? Speaking of actors, Kevin Bacon and his wife, Kyra Sedgwick, were suckered by Madoff, say numerous reports. “Bacon joins Hollywood victims such as director Steven Spielberg and his...
7 days ago from
AgoraVox
...e-mail address will not be used for anything other than the automated reminder. Your email address: A vacation trip to the Bahamas ended in a nightmare for John Travolta and Kelly Preston. Jett suffered a seizure that resulted in his death he has a...
6 days ago from
Associated Content
...right in the middle of Ireland. And we recorded the second half of the record in Berlin in Hansa studios, which is where David Bowie and Lou Reed and Iggy Pop made their Berlin records in the mid seventies. (Berlin) is just an amazing place to live in and...
6 days ago from
CNN
...alliance with TataSky has allowed us to make our matrimony services to millions of users via TV. Similarly, our alliance with Airtel has made our services accessible via cell phone. # Greater Internet and PC penetration: The number of internet users in India...
6 days ago from
Alootechie
...of Moody’s Capital Markets.” CNBC: Nobel thoughts on the economy “Insight on how soon the recession will end, with Edmund Phelps, Nobel Laureate and Columbia University professor.” Barron’s: Seasonal patterns for the market “Barron’s Michael Santoli discusses...
6 days ago from
The Big Picture
Last Month - About Wikipedia
...in June 2007 I wrote a response/review of Andrew Keen's The Cult of the Amateur, a book that wasn't exactly pro-Internet/Web 2.0. However, I'm a firm believer that it helps to make your case if you're familiar with the counter arguments. Though it cam out...
30 days ago from
Yahoo! Buzztracker
...Wikipedia is all served from Florida.) What slowed it down was that running all access to the #4 site in the world from Virgin Media, the #2 ISP in Britain, through two IPs was enough to cause massive problems for that ISP. A real Virgin killer. Ahahahaha. Correction...
30 days ago from
Wired
...your competition. In addition to Twitter, it’s a good idea to watch what people are saying on blogs too. Blog search engine Technorati is one of the best ways to do it. Technorati does a great job of finding new posts, almost as fast they’re put up, and you...
30 days ago from
SitePoint
...Ice Cider is rich, sweet, alcoholic, not to mention expensive. Here is the designation reserved for ice cider in Quebec from Wikipedia: « Cidre de glace » : "Cider ice" drinks produced by the fermentation of apple juice, which must have a concentration of...
30 days ago from
Beerinator
...album was released in 1976 and the various versions of the image have appeared on album covers and repackaging. The Wikimedia Foundation was delighted. General counsel Mike Godwin said in a release: We recognize the good intentions of Internet watch groups,...
30 days ago from
ZDNet
...is where the unintended consequences began. Some of the ISPs' proxy servers were unable to handle the volume of traffic Wikipedia attracts, making Wikipedia unavailable entirely. But there were also stranger side effects. That meant that huge numbers of ordinary...
30 days ago from
Electronic Frontier Foundation
...foundation’s lead ended up disabling the editing function for Wikipedia editors. Mike Godwin, the general counsel for the Wikimedia Foundation which runs Wikipedia, said the problem was a result of old tools colliding with a modern Web project. “The Internet...
30 days ago from
The New York Times
...95 percent of U.K. ISPs (Internet service providers), by Wikimedia's estimate, block Web pages based on IWF's list. The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit operator of Wikipedia, praised the IWF's decision. "We are grateful to the IWF for making this swift...
30 days ago from
PC World
...we have reported in British censor reverses Wikipedia ban, the Internet Watch Foundation has reversed its decision to blacklist a Wikipedia page that includes an image of a 32-year-old album cover by a German rock group, The Scorpions. The ban attracted widespread...
30 days ago from
Guardian Unlimited
...watch groups, including their focus on blocking and discouraging illegal content," Mike Godwin, general counsel for the Wikimedia Foundation, said in a statement. "Nevertheless, this incident underscores the need for transparency and accountability in the...
30 days ago from
CNET