How to Game Wikipedia.What if your small business is not in Wikipedia?What it there is not an existing listing for your business? How do you get it added?Interesting questionYou would use the same general technique to add your business. The main point is to not make it look as if...
BEIJING AFP — Chinese censors seemed Thursday to have relaxed their control of Wikipedia, a popular online encyclopaedia, as reports from users suggested it was accessible in at least parts of the country. The site appeared to have been unblocked in several major cities including the capital Beijing,...
Radio Gabby Logan Radio 5 Live Rudy's Rare Records Radio 4 I received an email from Radio 5 Live's publicity department last week. "Gabby Logan returns to Radio 5 Live for a new Sunday show combining her skills in presenting across...
GPS can be a tool for "doing evil deeds," pointed out John Brandon in Wired Magazine. In his October 23 article "Psst. Wanna Be a GPS Prankster? Here's How," Brandon describes tricks such as moving geochaches, changing voice prompts, or inputting bogus waymarkers at Waymarking.com. "With great power...
SOAPBOX By their nature, anniversaries make us reflect. And CIPS's 75th, as you'll see from this issue of SM is no different. I put "1932" in to Wikipedia to see what was happening while our profession's pioneers were busy forming the foundations of the institute we...
There are plenty of academics, among others, who won't play the Wikipedia game. They've studied for years, devoting themselves to the full-time pursuit of knowledge about their topic. Then they go to Wikipedia and read an article that infuriates them because it's so superficial or so full of errors and...
The book of the week, sorry, Book of the Week, on Radio 4 this week is all about cricket. It's called More Than a Game. It is being read out loud by John Major, because he wrote it. The Radio Times says that "this book explores his passion for the...
Recently, 3-D online multiuser virtual environments MUVEs have become very popular. In these online worlds, users have avatars digital surrogates that move around within the virtual world, interact with others and the virtual environment, build things, etc. The Wikipedia article on MUVEs lists Second Life, There.com,...
JOE KERNEN, CNBC ANCHOR: All right. The race is on in the search space to beat Google GOOG at its own game. Good luck. This week we will -- going to be highlighting four companies that are generating buzz with hefty expectations to...
Time has named "You" as its Person of the Year in recognition of how internet users have changed the media through blogs, file- sharing and websites such as Wikipedia, You-Tube and Myspace. "For seizing the reins of the global media, for founding and framing the new digital democracy, for working...
HOW MANY BANDS do you know that, shortly after releasing their first album, already have a page on Wikipedia almost as big as Paris Hilton's (yeah, not really), and a biography available on amazon.com? (Actually, that's not true either, despite what Wikipedia says.) Regardless, they've already collaborated with The Chemical...
A "hot" theory going around these days is that the mind of the masses, or "digital collectivism" as it is also known, is greater than the mind of any single person. It's the basis of Web sites like Wikipedia and is explained in the book Critical Mass:...
m-Wise, Inc. (OTCBB: MWIS), leadinginternational developer of technology and solutions for mobile contentproviders, wireless operators, and on-demand application service providers,proudly announces it will be connecting mobile phone users for the firsttime to the world's most-viewed live event in sports. The FIFA World Cup also known as the Mundial, has become...
'The ancient Greeks and Romans built pools to use for athletic training in the palestras, as well as nautical games and military exercises. Roman emperors also had private pools where fish were kept, hence the Latin word for pool, piscina."--Wikipedia...
You know all about the NBA's superstars, the Kobes and Shaqs and J Kidds; the MVP talents like Dirk Nowitzki, Tim Duncan and Steve Nash; the blossoming games of Dwyane Wade, Carmelo Anthony and Gilbert Arenas. And because you know them, you know that they're the linchpins of...
OAKLAND, Calif. -- Gamerhelp.com, part of the IDG Entertainment IDGE online network, has developed the first mainstream wiki application for gaming information sites. IDGE's Gamerhelp.com is a multilayered resource site for gamers seeking cheats, walkthroughs, and strategies for the most popular current and retro games. The site's new...
Kevin Bacon, who gained immortality with the cult game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, turns 47 this July The game, originally developed by three college students in Pennsylvania, permeated popular culture via word-of-mouth. It's since earned its own reference page on Wikipedia, a free online encyclopedia built by word-of-mouth. ...
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