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- Terri Gross savages Jimmy Wales
- Terri Gross savages Jimmy WalesEasyThere are lots of examples of how "free culture" is not only working, but thriving...Let me also clarify one thing. When I talk about "free culture" I am talking about content licensed under a Creative Commons license, an Artistic License, the GFDL like Wikipedia, and BSD...
- Tags: Wiki, Wikipedia, Wikipedia IS
- Discussion threads 2007-04-24
- Wikidentity
- WikidentityI'll biteYou need some talkbacks, so I'll provide one.Don't know whether Jimmy Wales was complicit in the fraud you refer to, but this is a consequence of the wiki system. I'm sure it would work great if everyone was honest and only wrote what they knew, but we don't...
- Tags: Wiki, Wikidentity, Wikipedia IS
- Discussion threads 2007-03-03
- Google News dumps partner after prank item appears
- Google News dumps partner after prank item appearsNT Tom sure has an appropriate last name :o):o)April Fool's Day Early?Wait until the day of to post the jokes!!!!HmmI guess Google News came out of beta a wee bit early...?Wikipedia is self-tarnishing"Wiki exemplar Wikipedia saw its image tarnished twice last year when...
- Tags: Wiki, Business structures, Google News, Wikipedia, Wikipedia IS, Google Inc., partnership, April Fool
- Discussion threads 2006-03-20
- Nature says Wikipedia is not that bad
- Nature says Wikipedia is not that badAdvertisingI agree in theory that adding some advertising would be a good idea to raise money to support Wikipedia.But would that lead to greater legal risk?That would make Wikipedia a non-profit with revenues. Potentially substantial revenues, leading to either substantial profits or substantial...
- Tags: Wiki, Wikipedia, Wikipedia IS
- Discussion threads 2005-12-16
- Wikipedia's open-source label conundrum
- Wikipedia's open-source label conundrumConfusing software with contentThis article appears to confuse the CONTENT of an application with the software that underlies the operation of the application. Wikipedia IS open-source software - no different from thousands of other open-source codeing efforts where contributions by CODERS of the project are strictly controlled...
- Tags: Wiki, open source, Wikipedia, Wikipedia IS, software
- Discussion threads 2005-12-09
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- EU group demos quantum cryptography
- Under the auspices of the European Union, the world's largest quantum-encrypted network has been unveiled in Vienna, Silicon.com reports. It's the product of four years of work by 41 organizations from 12 countries, overseen by the SECOQC (Development of a Global Network for Secure Communication Based on...
- Tags: Cryptography, Quantum Cryptography, Cable, Network Technology, Digital Security, Security, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Surviving the recession with Free Linux distributions (Part 1)
- Times are tough. You're a computer geek and you need to feed your PC with the latest and greatest applications. What's a frugal nerd to do? A group of industry peers was recently asked by a colleague the following question: "If an SMB...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Linux Distribution, Recession, Fedora Project, Novell OpenSuse, Debian, Times, LTS, LTS Version, Versions, Debian Support Cycle, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, UNIX, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-10-12
- Teaching telecommuting
- Teaching telecommutingtelecommuting skills?I'm a fulltime telecommuter, though I do venture out to teach an IRL composition class a couple of days a week. I think the kids already have the skills they need to telecommute, and they value having the connection between the classroom and that new work environment made...
- Tags: telecommuting
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- Zune 3.0
- Photo gallery:Zune 3.0 softwareIn order for Microsoft's Zune MP3 player to compete against Apple's iPod, Microsoft not only had to create a great MP3 player; it also had to create a solid software client to compete against iTunes. In doing so,it's created an attractive, full-featured digital-media jukebox that some users...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Media players, Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Zune
- Product reviews 2008-10-07
- Welcome to the Data Cloud ?
- 'The Cloud' is increasingly prevalent in tech conversation these days. Stalwarts of the space such as Amazon and Salesforce go from strength to strength, whilst titans of an earlier model such as Larry Ellison and even Steve Ballmer now seek to appropriate the meme. New blogs like CloudAve play a...
- Tags: Web, Data, UKOLN, Channel Management, Internet, Semantic Web, Cloud Computing, Marketing, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- News to know: Green PCs, IT; IBM; Nokia; Apple
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: IBM launches beta of 'Bluehouse,' eyes Cisco's WebEx Matthew Miller: First impressions of the Nokia N96. Gallery right. Mary Jo...
- Tags: Steve Jobs, Larry Dignan, Nokia Corp., PC, Information Technology, Yahoo! Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, IBM Corp., Podcasts, Linux, Internet, Operating Systems, Software
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- More on wikipedia abuse
- More on wikipedia abuseThanks!That's an interesting report - if the research stands up, the method used could form the basis for a more general approach. Thanks for pointing it out.RE: More on wikipedia abuseReaders might be interested in seeing a study on vandalism of US senator's WP articles here :...
- Tags: Wiki, Wikipedia
- Discussion threads 2008-10-04
- More on wikipedia abuse
- The evidence on wikipedia abuse is piling up - and we're not even starting to really discuss some of the risks other social networking sites are exposing us to. It's not exactly armageddon time yet, but it's certainly time to wake up and smell trouble, big trouble, coming. by Paul...
- Tags: Wikipedia, Byrne, Wiki, Online Communications, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-10-04
- End the spectre of science for sale
- End the spectre of science for saleOr Not[i]He will graduate from high school next spring, an honor student, and cost me a fortune at some elite college.[/i]Depends on what he really wants to study. There are some world-class universities that are also shockingly inexpensive, even for out-of-state students. ...
- Tags: NIH, democracy
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Enterprise 2.0 and business collaboration
- Update: I hit "publish" before the article was completely finished, so I've added some images and updated some links. I can't pull the post without it leaving a trail behind it, so I may as well just own up now and say, "whoops, sorry". GroupSwim Collaboration, in...
- Tags: Security, Microsoft SharePoint, Enterprise 2.0, Wiki, Collaboration, Groupware, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- Sony Bravia Internet Video Link (DMX-NV1)
- The moment Sony's Bravia Internet Video Link (also known as the BIVL or DMX-NV1) was announced last year, we knew the product would face an uphill battle. What could Sony's proprietary video streamer offer that you can't already get from Apple TV, Xbox 360, Sony PS3, Vudu, or the Netflix...
- Tags: Video on demand (VoD), Corporate communications, TV & Home Theater, TVs, Cable, Broadband Internet, BIVL, Sony Corp.
- Product reviews 2008-10-02
- Creative Commons for students
- Creative Commons for studentsminors...One thing to bear in mind is that minors cannot license or re-license their own work without their parent's consent. Students can in some cases simply pull down content from the web and re-use it -- if the use is covered by "fair use" -- which...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Creative Commons
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- Another setback for university P2P
- Another setback for university P2PUm no.They should NOT kill P2P just because a criminal and inept organization wants to subpoena the daylights out of everyone. What they fail to realize is what ever they think they will produce from it will be negated by the fact they cannot conclusively prove...
- Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), P2P
- Discussion threads 2008-10-01
- Microsoft tries to lure more searchers with another giveaway
- Microsoft tries to lure more searchers with another giveawayRE: Microsoft tries to lure more searchers with another giveawayOdd way to grow share by limiting the number of people who can join. You're assuming that you need to pay them to search with you a dangerous precedent and by limiting...
- Tags: SEARCH, Web browsers, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Live Search, search engine, Microsoft Tries, giveaway, searcher, Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Discussion threads 2008-10-01
- Talkback Tuesday: Cheating at UltimateBet
- Talkback Tuesday: Cheating at UltimateBetWell said !As a famous starship engineer once noted " the more plumbing, the easier it is to spring a leak"Thanks for the reply, but...Hi Adam.Thank you for dedicating a whole new post to reply my drive-by one line comment.[b]Addamm O'Donel[/b] sic wrote:[i]"There is an elephant...
- Tags: Web site development, Talkback Tuesday, UltimateBet
- Discussion threads 2008-09-30
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