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Why Every Google and Wikipedia Board member should know What candidates are on the Tea partiers Lips
Valley of the Shadow —
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I am a geek. A sci-fi and political geek, but a geek nonetheless. But I have a habit of looking at current events and History and looking for patterns. I look for trends. William Gibson wrote about a character in his Bridge Trilogy who searches for Nodal Points . I find it within the nexus of Politics, policy and pop ...2 days ago -
Bloomberg Interviews Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales [VIDEO]
Pulse2 - Technology News And Reviews —
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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales was on Bloomberg TV earlier this week to clarify that there has not been a mass exodus of voluntary editors. Wikipedia is still very much driven by the community. Wales also revealed some interesting numbers about Wikipedia. To maintain Wikipedia, it costs around $10 million per ...3 days ago -
Donate to the Wikimedia Foundation
noel.io —
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“Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet has free access to the sum of all human knowledge.” — Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia Donate to Wikipedia, so that you’ll always have the answer that the other person is too lazy to look up on their iPhone. via Appeal2/en – Wikimedia ...3 days ago -
Wikipedias Jimmy Wales launches personal appeal to help protect the site
Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk —
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Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, has launched a personal appeal for donations to help "protect" the online encyclopedia.1 week ago -
Wikipedia Shatters Fundraising Record for Single Day
WebProNews Feed —
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Wikipedia had a record-shattering day this week. On Tuesday afternoon, the Wikimedia Foundation posted a personal appeal from its founder, Jimmy Wales. In that, Wales said : The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization I created in 2003 to operate, grow, nurture, and protect Wikipedia. For ten million US ...1 week ago -
Seth Finkelstein on Digital Sharecropping
culturekitchen - fresh dissent served daily —
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Wales speaks a language of corporate collectivism that would not be out of place in Rands novels. Hyperbolically, its where docile workers express joy that wonderful capitalists have provided the means of production, enabling glorious collective enterprises such as a laissez-faire market. This sounds strange to people ...1 week ago -
Mundo Wiki: de la encicopledia libre a las comunidades de fans con sponsors
Insights Qualitativos 2.0 —
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por Alicia Vidal via INFOBRANDJimmy Wales, fundador de Wikipedia, pasó por Buenos Aires y dio cátedra sobre cómo se maneja y articula el espíritu emprendedor. Sin miedo a equivocarse ahora pone muchas fichas a Wikia, su nuevo proyecto.Jimmy Wales pasó por Buenos Aires invitado por Junior Achievement ...1 week ago -
Copenhagen’s Mayor is a prostitute
Bleeding edge blog —
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Copenhagen’s freak show continues… The local city Mayor is a prostitute. I saw it on Wikipedia. Lord Mayor of Copenhagen Ritt Bjerregaard hostess of COP15 was a little whore in her younger years – according to Wikipedia… The currently feisty ’anti-whore’ Mayor Ritt Bjerregaard personal profile ...1 week ago -
New years predictions for social media 2010…
Senses: A blog about the Thirdi Software perception —
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Well, another year over and only 2 more to go until we all die in the 2012 earth ending apocalyptic collisions between one fictitious rogue planet that someone haphazardly associated with a Sumarian creation myth and an ancient Mayan calendar , which like all calendars happens to have a beginning and end. So ...2 weeks ago -
Wikipedia Founder to Give Talk in Buenos Aires
The Argentine Post —
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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales will give a talk in Buenos Aires this Friday at 10 a.m. The lecture, sponsored by the U.S. Embassy, will deal with “Wikipedia, Wikia and the future of free culture.” The talk will have simultaneous translation. For more information, click here . To register, call: 5252-0260 ...2 weeks ago -
Where Did the Web Touch You? [Things We Actually Like]
Gawker —
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Online artist Casetteboy created this funny/brilliant mashup of experts explaining "the Web." In short, the global computer network is an anti-social creep that "nailed some feces to the door,"...2 weeks ago -
Where Did the Web Touch You?
Gawker: valleywag —
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Online artist Casetteboy created this funny/brilliant mashup of experts explaining "the Web." In short, the global computer network is an anti-social creep that "nailed some feces to the door," according actor Stephen Fry, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and other digerati. Our favorite fake answer is tech investor ...2 weeks ago -
My Hunch Is As Good As Jimmy Wales’ Hunch
GigaOM —
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Wikipedias Jimmy Wales Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has joined the board of directors of Hunch , a New York-based startup that counts among its co-founders Chris Dixon and Caterina Fake. Hunch is one of the more important startups to emerge recently, yet it’s largely flown under the radar — much like Flickr ...2 weeks ago -
The Role of Technologists in Addressing Poverty and Other Issues
ChurchCrunch —
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This is a Guest Post by Rodlie Ortiz. I recently had the opportunity to hear Jimmy Wales , co-founder of Wikipedia speak at the the launch of a new wiki site for the Tampa Bay Coalition for the Homeless . According to Wikipedia a wiki is a “website that allows the easy creation and editing of a large number ...2 weeks ago -
Wiki-Wiki-Yeah!: A Conversation With Jimmy Wales
The Daily Clog —
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If you missed the boat on scoring tickets to the *sold out* Ira Glass talk at Zellerbach Hall tonight, please … please don’t cry. We’re bloggers. Which is just a nice way of saying “emotional cripples.” We’re ill-equipped to deal with tears. But seriously, don’t worry because Jimmy “Jimbo” Wales, ...2 weeks ago -
Calling all amateurs. Your expertise is needed.
What Comes Around —
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On November 24 th , a story in the New York Times Magazine used Wikipedia as a source – a first for them. A bit more unexpected—at least 100 judicial rulings have relied on Wikipedia for research. Despite its rise as a reliable source for, well, almost anything, there have been some rumors of a ...3 weeks ago -
Is Wikipedia Decaying or Growing Up?
gnovis - Georgetown University's Journal of Communication, Culture & Technology (CCT) —
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In the Wall Street Journal, the article titled "Volunteers Log off as Wikipedia Ages" (subscription only) reports on statistics showing the rapid decline of active Wikipedians (volunteer editors of Wikipedia). "In the first three months of 2009, the English-language Wikipedia suffered a net loss of more ...3 weeks ago -
Arguing Over a Meaningless Concept
Net News Publisher —
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I continue to be surprised that Wikipedia has never been on the receiving end of a Chutzpah of the Week award. I gave one to Jimmy Wales this past April ; but that was not for anything specifically having to do with Wikipedia. Rather, it was for an outrageous act of cultural amnesia , which, ironically, could ...4 weeks ago -
Cheap books vs. lit and diverse political views—plus Wikipedia’s denial of volunteer crisis
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home —
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Links via Gary Price at ResourceShelf —along with some comments from me: – Cheaper Books Come at a High Cost to Worthy Literature , in the New York Times . Not only does the Times article discuss pricing issues, but also Wal-Mart ’s favoritism toward politically conservative writers such as Glenn ...4 weeks ago -
Future of Wikipedia Uncertain As 49,000 Volunteers Abandon Site
Impact Lab —
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The free internet encyclopedia is one of the world’s most popular websites and uses volunteers to create pages and check factsFears are rising that the usefulness of Wikipedia could be undermined as thousands of volunteer researchers abandon the site. The free internet encyclopedia is one of the world’s most ...4 weeks ago
