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The Top 7 Reasons Why You SHOULD NOT Donate to the Wikimedia Foundation

By robinsongo88 302 days ago from http://advice.robinsongo.com

ecently, the Wikimedia Foundation put up banner ads and a donation “thermometer” in order to scrounge up another million bucks from donors who don’t realize the monster they are feeding. I list down the top 7 reasons why you shouldn’t donate to the

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Banning students from using the web

By robojiannis 237 days ago from http://changemod.com

If anyone has been a student during the digital age, he/she will know, that using wikipedia as an essay source is a tabu in the academical circles. But the decision of a lecturer to ban her students from using online services, has raised some interesting issues: Should students be allowed to use wikipedia and google in their university essays

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Are you ever at a loss for words? Try these sites!

By greenknight 291 days ago from http://www.fitzbiz.org

Fitzy discusses the various sites he uses when he's at a loss for words. These range from simple reference sites such as wikipedia.org, dictionary.com and thesaurus.com to a cool graphical thesaurus called Visual Thesaurus that is worth the money. When in doubt or when you just can't find that perfect word, check these sites out to improve

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USD Wikis Get Euro-nized

By wildfxp 272 days ago from http://bloggin-ads.com

These online paid Wiki pages are totally rocking the net. I’m not even sure where to start because I had my doubts when Million Dollar Wiki launched, but now there are $1 Wiki pages to changing the currency to Euro.

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the media Guru: Google Knol - the Wikipedia wanna-be

By carrotmadman6 268 days ago from http://themediaguru.blogspot.com

Knol is Google’s answer to Wikipedia.

The key idea behind the knol project is to highlight authors. Books have authors' names right on the cover, news articles have bylines, scientific articles always have authors -- but somehow the web evolved without a strong standard to keep authors names highlighted. We believe that knowing who wrote

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The Bottom is not Enough: Top-down control in a Web 2.0 world

By coyotesqrl 206 days ago from http://www.kk.org

Kevin Kelly discusses the intelligence of the hive mind and the place for top-down editorial control on the Web. Kelly is the co-founder of Wired, the author of Out of Control, and a board member of The Long Now Foundation.

Believing that "the bottom is not

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$1 Wikis, Beating All The Competitors In A Flash!

By wildfxp 266 days ago from http://bloggin-ads.com

One Buck Wiki, is it the new million dollar idea? Well, whether if it's a million dollar idea or not, the people behind this work of art...

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Entrepreneurial Learning Through Wikinomics

By slyvisions 18 days ago from http://slyvisions.com

Wikinomics... a word that combines Wikipedia and economics that is based on collaboration and sharing between a big group of people. Invidivuals from all over the world are connected in the goal to reach an innovation that might could possibly change the world in some way.

Working together with others has never been more im

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