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Media: Wikipedia, Plagiarism, and Procrastination

Shortcut-seeking high school and college students are not alone. Someone else plagiarized a passage from Wikipedia. The lifted material didn't appear in a midterm essay, though. Instead, according to an article in yesterday's New ...READ»

Work/Life: Wikipedia/Life Balance

Earlier this week, I stumbled upon a story about the Dutch royal couple that edited their own Wikipedia entry to doctor some information about a detail in the past of the princess. Now, I have my complaints about our ...READ»

Wikimaniacs or Wikirealists?

Wiki maniacs were in full attendance at Wikimania last week. Not just the participants in the Wikipedia community, but users and developers of open source wiki. Seventy of 400 attendees were members of the press, which served to ...READ»

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Free Market Philosophy

Wikipedia's Philosophy of Business section takes a long look at the very foundation of business formation and operation, business's purpose and role in society, and its moral obligations. Making a sharp disction between the ...READ»

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If you're still at your desk but you've already "checked out" for Thanksgiving, check out the Wiki Game. As a born researcher and chronic time-waster I can't help but admire this exercise. Think Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, played ...READ»

New Rules for Wikipedia?

CNET reported on Friday that Wikipedia, the massive user-collaborated online encyclopedia, is planning on imposing stricter editorial rules and "freezing" pages that contain stable, undisputed content. This move stems from founder ...READ»

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Wikipedia and 'The New York Times' Suppress Facts to Save Kidnapped Journo

Last week, journalist David Rohde escaped after a seven-month kidnap by the Taliban. It's fabulous news, and it's been partly attributed to the fact that The New York Times suppressed it in the first place. But today we learn that ...READ»

An Open Wound for an Open-Source Reference

Look up Wikipedia on Wikipedia and you learn that the free online encyclopedia that anyone can contribute to has grown to more than 2.5 million articles and over 100 active editions in different languages. Impressive, but is it true? ...READ»

Wikipedia, Vol. 2: Encyclopedia Smackdown

Much like a Wikipedia entry, our discussion of the online encyclopedia is nothing if not dynamic. In fact, it's already time for an update. As FC Now reader Shel Holtz points out, the science journal Nature posted an article ...READ»

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Is Wikipedia in Decline? Scientists Search for Answers in Wikipedia's Numbers

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»

How You Can Investigate Congressional Malpractice

The folks at the Sunlight Foundation are pioneering new ways for ordinary people to figure out bad politics, first Congresspedia, like Wikipedia for Congress. Today, they announce a project where bloggers and good governemnt types ...READ»

Battling Crime One Leak at a Time?

From tax evasion and money laundering to what’s happening at Guantanamo, whistleblowers’ “secret” documents can be posted and seen by anyone with access to the Internet, thanks to Wikileaks. Even a federal judge’s order here ...READ»

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Is Open Source Mania Already Dead?

A few weeks ago Larry Sanger, the co-mastermind behind Wikipedia, announced he's taking on the grassroots encyclopedia with his own "fork" (a term used by hackers when two groups working on open-source software move in opposing ...READ»

Sustainable Architecture?

Wikipedia has a great summary of what sustainable design really is. The statement "Sustainable architects design with sustainable living in mind" is very true, and very important! It brings attention to the fact that if ...READ»

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Self-Healing Web Apps Make Scaling Easier

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»

Changing the Definition of Change Management

The current definitions of change management are hopelessly ’soft’ and poorly defined. READ»

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Wikipedia Grows Up--Limits Edits to Biographies

Wikipedia's governing Wikimedia Foundation just made an interesting announcement: For the first time some editorial control will be exerted over articles on living people. Compared to its carefree youthful days, is Wikipedia growing ...READ»

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Wikipedia Goes All Douglas Adams With Portable E-Reader

Wikipedia's handheld $99 Wikireader takes the encyclopedia mobile, in a sweetly Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy kind of way.READ»

Why Is This Man Smiling?

Jimbo Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, slayer of Britannica, has a new giant in his sights: Google. And he thinks he has got a better way to search. Is he delusional--or inspired?READ»

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Infographic of the Day: Ask Ken, a Visual Browser for Wikipedia

The hyperlink has served us well in the last 15 years or so. But I'll bet you that 15 years from now, the hyperlink will be as passé as a dial-up modem: As information proliferates, we'll need better visual organization of that ...READ»

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Is Your Brand Real? (Wikipedia or Bust...)

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»

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Did Augmented Reality Just Get the Real World Database It Needs to Thrive?

Augmented Reality may well be the killer app for GPS and compass-empowered smartphones, but the tech has a significant drawback--it requires accurate points of interest to make it useful. A new start-up, L.A.-based unit called ...READ»

The Tangled Relationship Between Jimbo Wales and Google

Wikipedia Wikipedia, for its part, gets around one-third of its traffic from referrals from Google's search engine. Google Google gets a lot of traffic from people interested in Wikipedia. Google's top searches for ...READ»

The New, New Manager: What Geeks Can Teach Us About Getting Stuff Done

Back in the days of yore (2001), when nearly all of my new media peers were losing their jobs, my company saw an opportunity to develop content around what we all sensed was a seismic shift in our way of thinking. The events of 9/11 ...READ»

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First There Were Books, Then Blogs, and Now There's Blooks

Just when one Internet phenomenon achieves enough hype, something new is right around the corner. Blogs, YouTube, Twitter, it goes on. Now there's the Blook. Former Fortune 500 CEO Paul Mongerson recently launched OurBlook.com, a ...READ»