wikipedia

Why today's Web blackouts are working

Digg - Business & Finance  Wed, 01/18/2012 - 21:23

There's no guarantee that the decision by Wikipedia and others to go dark in protest of SOPA and PIPA will stymie the legislation.

But the blackouts are dominating media -- and that's the whole idea. FORTUNE -- I just looked at a Google cache version of a Wikipedia page.

It's easy ...


 

Official Google Blog: Don't censor the web

Digg - Business & Finance  Wed, 01/18/2012 - 01:33

You might notice many of your favorite websites look different today. Wikipedia is down.  Wordpress is dark.

We’re censoring our homepage logo and asking you to petition Congress . So what’s the big deal?


 

Web Site Will Shut Down to Protest Antipiracy Bills

NYT > Business  Tue, 01/17/2012 - 22:17

With a Web-wide protest on Wednesday that includes a shutdown of Wikipedia, the legislative battle over two piracy bills has reached a political coming of age.


 

Wikipedia editors question site's planned blackout

Newsvine - business  Tue, 01/17/2012 - 16:58

Can the world live without Wikipedia for a day? The planned shutdown of one of the Internet's most-visited sites is not sitting well with some of its volunteer editors, who say the protest of anti-piracy legislation could threaten the credibility of their work.


 

Lexalytics Analyzes Wikipedia To Understand How Humans Think

InformationWeek Business Intelligence  Thu, 04/14/2011 - 11:07

Concepts extracted from the community created encyclopedia can be used to improve analysis of documents and sentiment in social media.


 

Define Gender Gap? Look Up Wikipedia’s Contributor List

NYT > Business  Sun, 01/30/2011 - 21:40

Surveys suggest that less than 15 percent of the online encyclopedia’s hundreds of thousands of contributors are female.


 

Wikipedia and Facebook Just Got Rich, For Opposite Reasons

Digg - Business & Finance  Tue, 01/04/2011 - 09:22

In the midst of panic about the future of publishing in a world where we're used to not paying for information, there may be hope.


 

Wikipedia nears 10 as Foundation reaches fundraising goal in rec...

Topix - Business News  Sat, 01/01/2011 - 14:20

If you've used Wikipedia at all during its latest pledge drive, you've noticed the donation plea at the top of each page.

As of today, that's been replaced with a thank you, as the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation has reached its donation goal.


 

When Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Personally Appeals, You Pay (...

Digg - Business & Finance  Sat, 11/20/2010 - 07:25

When Jimmy makes a personal appeal, people fork over cash.


 

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (laptop helth issues)

DaniWeb IT Discussion Community - IT Careers and Business  Sun, 10/17/2010 - 14:43

One of my friend had to do this surgery http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpal_tunnel_syndrome
I'm sooo sad.Many people say that working as a computer programmer is more safer than
other jobs.But????

Actually my idea is when they design hardwaer like mouse keyboard and touchpads they
should be more carefull.Otherwise ppl will suffer from the helth problems.

what are your ideas about this?