übergizmo (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
Vudu just announced that its service now integrates Wikipedia information about movies, actors and more. Users will be able to read articles and follow links, just like they would on Wikipedia.com. However, Vudu is also adding links to Vudu information like the filmography of an actor/actress. That's not only an interesting way to know more about the content, but it can also help find related content....
Gearlog (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
VUDU users will get a new way to explore movie content with the latest firmware upgrade: Wikipedia is now embedded into the service
The Technology Liberation Front (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
There was a very interesting front-page article in the Wall Street Journal yesterday by Julia Angwin and Geoffrey Fowler wondering whether Wikipedia, the wildly popular online encyclopedia, was dying because of new posting guidelines which have apparently led to a drop off in the number of volunteers contributing to the site. In their article (”Volunteers [...]
dispatches from TJICistan (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
Overnight, the Freedom of Information section was flushed down the memory hole (at least) two more times. One of the new tricks that the censors are using is to remove the links to the leaked files (because they’re – you know – maybe – copyrighted), and then remove paragraphs talking about the FOI and [...]
Electronista (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
VUDU has recently added Wikipedia to the interface of its on-demand video service, letting users access information on any movie or show they're considering watching. The application will also link to various actors, actresses, movies and directors related to the particular title they're watching. Users can browse Wikipedia like they would traditionally via a web browser on their PC....
BigPictureBigSound.com (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
With a wave of the magic wand, the world's largest repository of user-contributed knowledge is now available within VUDU's movie streaming interface.
Technology (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
Microsoft's WebTV service proved pretty conclusively that the masses don't want to surf the Web on their TVs. They want to watch videos, not browse for bargains on Craigslist. Technologies that integrate Web content into TV programming, on the other hand, seem much more promising. Vudu, which delivers movies on demand through the Internet to TV sets, is launching one example today, adding content streamed...
Stowe Boyd's (Free subscription) | yesterday
Volunteers have been departing the project that bills itself as "the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit" faster than new ones have been joining, and the net losses have accelerated over the past year. In the first three months of...
dispatches from TJICistan (Free subscription) | yesterday
I added several edits to the Wikipedia article on Climatic Research Unit file release incident: renamed the article from “…e-mail hacking incident” to “…file release incident”, because there is no evidence that there was any hacking …and because much of the interesting materials is not in the emails, but in the other files released added a [...]
The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
Wikipedia , the online encyclopedia built on the backs of a seemingly never-ending supply of free labor, is in a bit of a bind: Many contributors are throwing in the towel. As reported in a page one story in Monday's Wall Street Journal , "unprecedented numbers of the millions of online volunteers who write, edit and police it are quitting." And, the article adds, not enough new blood is...
The Mess That Greenspan Made (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Wall Street Journal reports($) that Wikipedia is losing volunteers at a quickening pace, casting some doubt on the future of the world's most popular encyclopedia. Wikipedia.org is the fifth-most-popular Web site in the world, with roughly 325 million monthly visitors. But unprecedented numbers of the millions of online volunteers who write, edit and police it are quitting. That could have significant...
Valleywag (Free subscription) | yesterday
Wikipedia was probably pretty cool a few years back when you could just get a wild hair and immediately post up an article on The Artifacts, or whatever. But now it's run by a dead-ender Debbie...
Gizmodo (Free subscription) | yesterday
The decay of time, bitter infighting, and the increasing scope and strength of regulations slowly strangle the life out of Wikipedia, with editors—its braintrust—fleeing in droves, even as traffic at the world's fifth most-popular website keeps growing. [ WSJ ]
Silicon Alley Insider (Free subscription) | yesterday
Wikipedia is losing thousands of editors each month, the Wall Street Journal reports . Why? The most popular topics have been written, making it less engaging. Also, Wikipedia has added more stringent rules for the editing process, making it harder for new editors. Wikipedia is recruiting new editors, but says stemming the exodus isn't a big concern. There is no "right" number of editors...
Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | yesterday
Tim Spalding at LibraryThing has done some research including a complete data dump of Wikipedia) to find the most cited books in the English language version of the online encyclopedia. Spalding parsed the database looking for citations and other mentions of books. All told, the data covers 251,911 pages and includes 540,000 citations. They cover [...]
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JStark | 09/27/2009
Wikipedia, one of the most visited sites in the world, was founded eight years ago in order to create an encyclopedia from voluntary contributions. These were also the same rights, including creating and editing articles. However, while the English version of Wikipedia has just reached the three million articles, this freedom is about to be curbed. It’s three weeks ago that members of the Wikimedia
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