Something Awful has a flat out hilarious (if somewhat long in the introduction) article on the nerd bias of wikipedia. The point isn’t to say that one article or another on Wikipedia has factual inaccuracies, but rather to show how much more attention certain topics get than others.
A columnist for the Syracuse Post-Standard apparently recommended Wikipedia as a good independent source for information. However, a librarian wrote him to complain about Wikipedia, and now another columnist has decided to spend an entire column bashing Wikipedia as a source because (gasp!) "anyone can change the content."
There's been plenty of debate over the past couple of years about the merits of Wikipedia, generally focusing on how "trustworthy" the site is because of its anonymous contributors and lack of professional editorial review.
So claims Paul Kedrosky, saying: In other words, none of the apps are particularly good -- photo sharing, status updates, personal pages, events, groups, etc. -- let alone being as good as their standalone counterparts -- Flickr, Twittr, Typepad/Wordpress, Google Group, etc. -- but most people don't care. They just want their social software all in one place, all from the same interface, and then they want to move on and get their (social/presence) work done.
Danny Hillis' latest venture, Metaweb, is about to unveil its first product, the aptly named freebase, tomorrow. While freebase is still VERY alpha, with much of the basic functionality barely working, the idea is HUGE. In many ways, freebase is the bridge between the bottom up vision of Web 2.0 collective intelligence and the more structured world of the semantic web.
Want to know how many dentists are in one mile vicinity, if they are next to tube stop and are specialists in teeth whitening? Freebase say they can not only give you this information, but that the database behind it will be build Wikipedia style.
Excel Saga (エクセル・サーガ, Ekuseru Sāga?) is a comedy manga series by Koushi Rikudou,[1] and a TV anime series directed by Shinichi Watanabe.[2] Both the anime and the manga are absurdist comedies following the attempts of Across, a "secret ideological organization", to conquer the city of Fukuoka as a first step towards world domination.
The New York Times is running a story about a woman who says her cat is clearly visible through the living room window of her second-floor apartment using Street View
For far too long now, we have been watching the people in charge of Wikipedia slowly destroy what could have been something wonderful. The freedoms they promote on their website and to the media are false. Wikipedia is not a free and open encyclopedia that anyone can edit. It is not the sum of all human knowledge, and the person in charge wants to keep it that way.
Done in the spirit of Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary, Encyclopedia dramatica's purpose is to provide a central catalog for the e-public to view parody and satirie of drama, memes, e-pals and other interesting happenings on the internets. The goal is to provide comprehensive, reference-style parody, to poke fun at everyone and everything on the internet
The Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever is a title coined by George Boolos in La Repubblica 1992 under the title L'indovinello più difficile del mondo for the following Raymond Smullyan logic puzzle: “ Three gods A, B, and C are called, in some order, True, False, and Random. True always speaks truly, False always speaks ...
Welcome to the Darwin Correspondence Project’s new web site. The main feature of the site is an Online Database with the complete, searchable, texts of around 5,000 letters written by and to Charles Darwin up to the year 1865.
During a parade honouring Itchy and Scratchy, Bart meets an elderly poor bum, Chester J. Lampwick, who claims to have been the creator of Itchy. After he proved it to Bart with his animated short "Manhattan Madness" from 1919, the film itself is destroyed by its showing.
Xavier Coll, a former vice-president for human resources, told bank interviewers that Mr Wolfowitz accused him of leaking details of the deal he engineered for Shaha Riza.
"And he also stated very clearly that if these people f*** with me or Shaha, I have enough on them to f*** them too. Those were the words," Mr Coll said