Month: August 2006

  • Wikipedia versus Britannica

    One of the more obvious criticisms of Wikipedia’s open publishing and open peer-review system is that it is prone to inaccuracies. However, according to this study (addmittedly small) from Nature Magazine, it is no more inaccurate than Encyclopaedia Britannica. One of the extraordinary stories of the Internet age is that of Wikipedia, a free online…

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  • What is the OpenNet Initiative?

    The Internet is not so much a ‘global’ medium as is claimed, but is more a ‘patchwork’ medium comprisign of controls and filters by various geographical based state and commercial interests. If you are interested in studies of how the Internet is regulated by these various countries, see some of the reports on the OpenNet…

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  • Wiki wars rage in US political arena

    I was wondering when Wikipedia would face its first major crisis. Perhaps this is it. While American politicians campaign and holiday over the August congressional recess, battles over their biographies and reputations are raging on the Internet.Along with blogs, meetups and other net innovations, 2006 is featuring full-scale Wiki wars, as partisans from right and…

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  • Current TV: A future for television?

    Current.tv is a model for the future of television. 30% of the content on this cable and satellite channel comes from videos submitted via users online. The division between the Internet and other media is changing. The definition of the Internet is changing. This model is sophisticated. User make programmes and get paid to make…

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  • The Management of Savagery

    I published the CIA’s 1963 torture manual (or ‘interrogation’) the other day on this blog, but in all fairness to deliberation, I should also provide a link to this “The Management of Savagery”. It is a Jihad manual translated in May of this year, about the conflict with the West (note the references to the…

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  • Social networkers get mobilised

    (Don’t you just love journalistic technology writing? If you can get past the exploding mobiles and the Libertarian, techno-determinist fantasies of this type of on-the-run, passive writing, then there are some informative empirical ideas here) The social networking movement looks set to explode onto the mobile platform with a new generation of location, blog and…

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