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Graywolf's SEO Blog (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
If you’re one of those kooky SEO’s that doesn’t believe that domain authority/trust is the single most important factor in SEO today, I really think you are either blind, stupid or both. Situations like the Tour De France really highlight the weaknesses in the Google Algo. The official Google Blog has a post about the Tour [...]
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San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
Researchers on Tuesday launched an effort to create a library of human genetics using the online encyclopedia Wikipedia in hopes it could spur widespread discussion about thousands of individual genes. Authors of the "gene wiki" say they have already created...
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Pursuing Holiness (Free subscription) | yesterday
In Wikipedia: Free Speech, Except for Global Warming, I noted that I’ve lauded Wikipedia several times for its support of free speech where Islam is concerned. But where global warming is concerned, dissent will not be tolerated, sometimes with amusing results: I undid Tabletop’s undoing of my edits, thinking I had an unassailable response: “Tabletop’s changes [...]
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MSDN Blogs (Free subscription) | yesterday
Now that Wikipedia has catapulted the wiki into the general consciousness, where there's a wiki, a spoof of a wiki can't be far behind. Uncyclopedia is the alternate-universe Wikipedia . Consider, for example, what it has to say about the television show Heroes . Smugopedia . You think you're so great. (Not actually a wiki, but I had to put it somewhere.) Frakr , a parody of Battlestar Wiki . Wikiality...
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Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check (Free subscription) | yesterday
Read the full post for some interesting Freebase details and mashups Wikipedia is an incredible monument to human creativity and collaboration, but as one era of innovation passes into another - semantic web advocates want to augment the huge human input into the web with machine learning. The semantically enriched common database Freebase announced today that it will soon reach the milestone of 4...
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Ring Nokia (Free subscription) | yesterday
This is hardly a hot news, but it's ultra useful for the iPhone/iPod Touch owners. Powerset is the best iPhone-optimized Wikipedia. Period. Unlike other Wikipedia services optimized for Apple's handset, not only can you search Wikipedia articles with Powerset and read them optimized for the iPhone/iPod Touch's scree, but you can also find the exact passage [...]
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The Liberal Blog Network (Free subscription) | yesterday
Wikipedia opens human gene library
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Valleywag (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Did you read our post that said a contractor at NBC had been fired for updating Tim Russert's Wikipedia page with news of the Meet the Press moderator's death? Um, never mind: Silicon Alley Insider... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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New World Notes (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
The contradictory data surrounding Second Life's current phase continues. From one perspective, the number of monthly active users has remained flat since last August, while peak concurrency has been plateaued since last April. From another angle, substantial in-world spending (perhaps...
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見ないで! 恥ずかしい... (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
This has been constantly building up in my head for I don’t know how long now, but the final straw to write about it finally came today when xkcd made fun of this. This prompted me to go to the Wikipedia page for Wood, which was locked with the following disclaimer: Editing of this article by new [...]
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Shankbone (Free subscription) | yesterday
This kind of photograph is difficult to obtain. It is of the New York State Theater at Lincoln Center. It was ballet season, and the State is home to the New York City Ballet (and the New York City Opera). They don't like you taking pictures, and they are vigilant during shows. I have a friend who works there who let me come in and take some shots when the theater was closed. Here, you can see a ballerina...
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
A new initiative in the Public Library of Science is attempting to harness new technology to create a new, efficient process of archiving information about the human genetic sequence. This work is reported in an article released on July 7, 2008 in the open access journal PLoS Biology.
