Wikileaks is like Wikipedia for sensitive information: a user-populated dossier of classified and leaked stuff, submitted by anonymous sources all over the world. Johnny Law has attempted to shut it down both domestically and abroad, ...READ»
The SELFMAN project, an initiative among seven European universities, seeks to build Internet applications that manage, tune, and fix themselves. And they're not too far down the road. When these apps do arrive, they'll make ...READ»
Wikipedia's ascendancy to the top of a large pool of online reference sites has come to an end, new research shows. But perhaps even more alarming to eleventh-hour term paper writers and lazy journalists everywhere, the user generated ...READ»
The Virginia Quarterly Review took a close look at Wired editor Chris Anderson's upcoming book Free, and discovered that entire passages appear to match entries in Wikipedia verbatim. Says reviewer Waldo Jaquith:
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Microsoft has announced that it's terminating its encyclopedia effort Encarta after 16 years in the business of collecting and publishing knowledge and historic information. The reasons for Encarta's doom are obvious: it's become ...READ»
Everyone's (or no one's) favorite redesigned brands, Tropicana and Facebook, came up yet again at this weekend's Y Conference as Liz Danzico, chair of the new Interaction Design MFA program at the School of Visual Arts, focused on ...READ»
You were busy listening to President Obama talk about health care, or watching the economy defy even the most pessimistic doomsayers. But all the while, the Web was churning with news of backroom dealings, car tech, Harvard's secret ...READ»
As I interview successful CEOs of innovative companies, I
see that there is one pattern of competition that consistently emerges. Pattern #34: Coordinate the uncoordinated.
In military circles they call it 4GW (Fourth ...READ»
While a clever virus runs rampant on the social networks, the UK blocks Wikipedia for hosting an image of an album cover showing a naked girl. Is cyber-security broken?READ»
Recently, Circuit City made news because of an employee's reaction to a spoof published in Mad Magazine.
You can check out the faux ad here.
I read Mad Magazine as a kid, years ago -- the exact number of years ago is not ...READ»
Wikipedia vs Encyclopedia
Wikipedia is often compared to encyclopedias while people debate which is better, more reliable, and more accurate. In response to one such study by the sience journal Nature, Britannica refuted the ...READ»
