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- Wikipedia
- The world's largest encyclopedia available on the Web at www.wikipedia.com. Using wiki software, Jimmy Wales started Wikipedia in 2001. By the end of 2005, there were 1.8 million...
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- Wikiamo 1.11 (Mobile)
- Wikiamo is an intuitive, Safari-like Wikipedia viewer for your iPhone and iPod Touch. It shows articles on Wikipedia with custom formatting, so you can read it comfortably. Some great features for this app include Bookmarks, History, Page cache for offline viewing, table of contents viewer, and more.
- Tags: Mobile, Wikipedia, Limechat, Wikiamo, Wiki, Online Communications
- Software downloads 2009-06-25
- America's #1 global warmer
- And it's not Al Gore. Far longer and far more informatively, Dr. James Hansen, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, has been warning, pleading, descrying and describing the progress and effects of global warming. And now he's been given a lengthy profile in the New Yorker....
- Tags: Protest, Al Gore, Wikipedia, Wiki, Online Communications, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-06-22
- Qwikipedia 1.0 (Mobile)
- Qwikipedia is an application allowing you to search Wikipedia at the tap of a finger. The Wikipedia content has been formatted to compliment the iPhone or iPod Touch's screen. There are features such as text size editing and a back button.
- Tags: Mobile, Wikipedia, SMG, Qwikipedia, Wiki, Online Communications
- Software downloads 2009-06-19
- Encyclopedia 1.0 (Mobile)
- Encyclopedia is the way to browse Wikipedia. When you first launch Encyclopedia, you will be required to download a copy of the Wikipedia database, which will occupy about 2GB of space on your device. Encyclopedia does not require internet access, includes complete text of the English Wikipedia, instantaneous search of...
- Tags: Encyclopedia, Mobile, Wikipedia, Steam Heavy Industries, Wiki, Online Communications
- Software downloads 2009-06-15
- Med students should be editing, not using, Wikipedia
- Med students should be editing, not using, WikipediaWikipedia will support thisJust to add to the story, I should point out that Wikipedians support schools and professors who want to integrate improvement of Wikipedia articles into their courses: see the Wikipedia page "Wikipedia:School and university projects" (shortcut "WP:SUP", if I remember...
- Tags: Wiki, Wikipedia, Med
- Discussion threads 2009-06-09
- Med students should be editing, not using, Wikipedia
- Everyone knows I love Wikipedia. Our librarian knows it, regular readers know it, my mom knows it. I defend its value and its place in education as a quick reference, preliminary source, and bibliographic reference on a variety of topics. Properly sourced articles have a great deal of credibility....
- Tags: Student, Wikipedia, Wiki, Online Communications, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-06-09
- Banning Scientology doesn't make Wikipedia more credible
- Banning Scientology doesn't make Wikipedia more credibleSorry Chris... an effort to do something is better than no effort. ntntNo, but it sure makes the Thetans angry.]:)Scientology - shrugIt's better to keep 'm exposed as warped 'personality-tests' doing whackos.RE: Banning Scientology doesn't make Wikipedia more credibleChris, I agree with...
- Tags: Wiki, Scientology, Wikipedia, Banning Scientology
- Discussion threads 2009-05-29
- Banning Scientology doesn't make Wikipedia more credible
- So Wikipedia has banned all Church of Scientology IP addresses "in an unprecedented effort to crack down on self-serving edits," according to the Register and several other outlets. So what's with the title from one of the rare educators who actually thinks Wikipedia has a lot of value? ...
- Tags: Scientology, Wikipedia, Wiki, Online Communications, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-05-29
- Drug Pronunciations 1.1 (Mobile)
- Drug Pronunciations features accurate audio pronunciations of drugs including both generic and trade names, internet access is not necessary to listen to the pronunciations, and integrated web browser with direct links to Wikipedia and Google for additional drug information. Browse the selection or enter the drug of interest in the...
- Tags: Mobile, Drug, Wikipedia, Hipposoft, Wiki, Web Browsers, Online Communications, Internet
- Software downloads 2009-05-28
- Wolfram Alpha: Wikipedia killer?
- It seems that most people who have had the chance to use Wolfram Alpha myself included agree that it will do a few things to Google: it will drive it to innovate in semantic search and it will complement its high-volume search capabilities quite nicely. It will not, however,...
- Tags: Google Inc., Wikipedia, Wiki, Online Communications, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-05-17
- How a student fooled the world's media
- How a student fooled the world's mediaDid you use Wikipedia as a source on this? You have an error ...The Wikipedia article originally said that Shane Fitzgerald attended "Dublin University", which within Wikipedia redirects to "University of Dublin" ... which as of this edit is where you are showing...
- Tags: Wiki, Advertising & Promotion, Wikipedia, media
- Discussion threads 2009-05-13
- How a student fooled the world's media
- On the 28th March, Shane Fitzgerald who studies at the University of Dublin, began an experiment which could put journalism into disrepute, by faking a quote on Wikipedia and measuring the spread across the world's media outlets. Maurice Jarre, a famous French composer, died in late March...
- Tags: Journalist, Media, Fake, Wikipedia, Wiki, Online Communications, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2009-05-13
- Scitable brings peer-reviewed credibility to the Wikipedia age
- Scitable brings peer-reviewed credibility to the Wikipedia ageVery interestingWhat a great post, you out did yourself on this one. I wonder what the cost is going to be?"many" Wikipedia entries are accurate and reliableIt's hard to understand your love of Wikipedia when, as you suggest in your first paragraph, the...
- Tags: Wiki, Wikipedia, peer-reviewed credibility, Scitable
- Discussion threads 2009-05-03
- Scitable brings peer-reviewed credibility to the Wikipedia age
- Regular readers will know that I'm actually a pretty big fan of Wikipedia. I think it has as much, if not more of a place in student research than actual encyclopedias did for us Gen-Xers when we were younger: it's a starting point and a great source of background...
- Tags: Student, Scientist, Wikipedia, Scitable, Nature Education, Wiki, Online Communications, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-05-03
- Scitable Virtual Classroom Setup
- Scitable is an easy-to-use resource from the Nature Publishing Group. Currently, its focus is Genetics, but there is much more to come. by Christopher Dawson
- Tags: Setup, Resource, Nature, scitable, wikipedia, Christopher Dawson
- Image galleries 2009-05-03
- Good riddance, Encarta!
- Good riddance, Encarta!WowYour biased anti-MS ranting just never stops. Yes we get it that Encarta's time has come and gone. But there is no need to have such a vitriolic attitude towards something that was very useful at a time when things like Wikipedia was not available to everyone.Fortunately...
- Tags: Wiki, Wikipedia, Encarta.com, GOOD RIDDANCE, Critical Thinking
- Discussion threads 2009-03-31
- Encarta dies, passes baton to Wikipedia
- Encarta dies, passes baton to WikipediaWhat you are really seeing...What you are really seeing is a general trend about information in general. We still have papyrus scrolls from Eygpt 3000 years ago but most future people will not know much about us. When Wikipedia finally dies what is going to...
- Tags: Wiki, Encarta.com, Wikipedia, baton
- Discussion threads 2009-03-31
- Encarta dies, passes baton to Wikipedia
- But why? I'll admit now that Encarta hasn't always been at the forefront of my mind when researching something; nor has it been a major part of my studies, life in general or search results on Google. Encarta still has a lot to give, even if I'm not the primary...
- Tags: Encarta.com, Wikipedia, Wiki, Online Communications, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2009-03-31
- Microsoft to close the book on Encarta
- Microsoft to close the book on EncartaEncarta still exists?Have the people at Microsoft not heard of Wikipedia? Or, did they just discover it this week?Encarta is so 1999.This made me laugh:[i]20:04, 30 March 2009 David Gerard (talk | contribs) (18,455 bytes) [b](it's dead, jim)[/b] undo[/i]is the history item on the...
- Tags: Wiki, Encarta.com, Wikipedia, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-03-30
- Has the UK gone too far in social media education?
- I have to share a cartoon that made its way to me last week (yes, I'm as behind in my blogging as I am in my day job, my spring yard work, and virtually every other aspect of my life) and then give a bit of thought to the story...
- Tags: Education, Curriculum, Social Media, U.K., Twitter, Wikipedia, Wiki, Online Communications, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-03-29

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