Well, once upon a time Michael Mandiberg, one of the chief Wikipedia contributors, decided: I will print it one day. And „when I started, I wondered: What if I took this new thing and made it into that old thing?“
Lulu.com is a website which is going to be used for publishing. It is developed... (read more)
Hey everybody!
Let's show how knowledgeable we are:
Try to remember any three Chinese sites in the comments without googling or looking it up in Wikipedia.
I wonder whether there's gonna be one single comment here.
Google, Wikipedia, Wordpress, Boing Boing and many other Internet resources bitterly rebel against Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA) — the two bills considered by Congress in Washington DC. For instance, Wikipedia blacked its English version out on Wednesday. Well-done,guys!
following reddit, WordPress and others.
The SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) is the global initiative by the US authorities (a kind of collision: why global, but by the US?) designed to fight piracy. The act should give the government a right to close any website that is caught infringing copyrig... (read more)
This week saw one more proof that Wikipedia is one of the most important sources of information in the modern world, as the Press Department of the Holy See disgraced themselves.
The reason for their epic fail was the appointment of 22 new cardinals by the Pope. According to a long-established trad... (read more)
As I was surfing TechCrunch today, I came across the link to www.trollthetroll.com. I would not say that checking out site has changed my life, my it has given me an overview of how messed up the modern world is.
The site's author offers you to donate him nine bucks. Instead he promises to send a cute troll doll to Intellectual Ventures.
I'll say... (read more)
Honestly, sometimes I really want to pay Jimmy Wales all I have on my bank account just to make his staring look disappear from the Wikipedia pages forever and ever. Last year I couldn't help uttering another „aw-w-w-w-w-w“ every time I started browsing the free encyclopedia.
This year has brough... (read more)
It's getting hot in the Wikipedia community. The long-observed trends of the Web censorship aggravation have finally reached the Free Encyclopedia, as the Wikimedia Foundation sent a mail to the Wikipedia authors, in which it has claimed that many of the Wikipedians try to deliberately shock the public, publishing provocative pictures... (read more)