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KNOL YER ROLL: Citizen-Generated Encyclopedias
http://www.meme.ca/ -KNOL-YER-ROLL-CitizenGenerated-Encyclopedias-022368.phpKNOL YER ROLL: Citizen-Generated Encyclopedias Posted by Dana Oshiro on July 23, 2008 Google just launched Knol, a Wikipedia competitor and what they describe as "moderated collaboration." A knol is "an authoritative article about a specific topic." Readers can edit knols and the initial author can choose to accept, reject or modify their knol before the changes are made public.
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User-generated Encyclopedias Supervised by Experts
http://tweaklearning.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 07/ 14/ user-generated-encyclopedias-s…An interesting concept employed by Citizendium for instance, is that the crowds generate the content, but the “experts” inspect it for accuracy. Which brings more credibility and a more vast array of information.
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Citizendium
http://whatsortsofpeople.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 07/ 06/ citizendium/Citizendium July 6, 2008 — Spirit of the Time Anyone reading this have any experience with Citizendium? At the Minds and Societies summer institute today I went to a talk by Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger on Citizendium, which aspires to be “the world’s most trusted encyclopedia and knowledge base”.
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Sathya Sai Baba & Wikipedia Bias
http://sathyasaibaba.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 05/ 09/ sathya-sai-baba-wikipedia-bias…Sathya Sai Baba & Wikipedia Bias Sathya Sai Baba On Wikipedia → Sathya Sai Baba Wikipedia Articles: Biased And Controlled By Ex-Devotees About Wikipedia Editors → Mel Etitis And His “Peter J King” Sockpuppet Cover-Up On Wikipedia → Ekantik, Gaurasundara And Sanjay Dadlani On Wikipedia
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Sathya Sai Baba On Wikipedia
http://sathyasaibaba.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 05/ 08/ sathya-sai-baba-on-wikipedia/Sathya Sai Baba Wikipedia Article Controlled By Ex-Devotees: The Sathya Sai Baba Wikipedia Article has been controlled, dictated, formed and influenced by Anti-Sai Activists (particularly by Andries Krugers Dagneaux) for many years now.
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Citizendium Invites You To Their Write-A-Thon
http://thearticlewriter.com/ blog/ 2008/ 05/ 07/ citizendium-invites-you-to-thei…I’ve been contributing articles and/or editing for Wikipedia since last July, by helping expand articles, providing relevant citable sources, and responding to the occasional call for help. Time isn’t on my side when it comes to editing for free, but there are those times when a Wikipedia diversion provides a needed boost for the editor within.
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Wikipedia, Scholarpedia, Citizendium, knol: Open Knowledge Production and Access
http://openanthropology.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 04/ 28/ wikipedia-scholarpedia-citi…In “Making Wikis Work for Scholars,” an article by Andy Guess in the 28 April, 2008, issue of Inside Higher Ed, one begins to see more positive assessments by some scholars of the value of Wikipedia for teaching, with some limitations (some making use of the limitations themselves), some doubts
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Free subscriptions and widgets for bloggers—from Encyclopedia Britannica
http://www.teleread.org/ blog/ 2008/ 04/ 19/ free-subscriptions-and-widgets-for-…Free subscriptions and widgets for bloggers—from Encyclopedia Britannica By David Rothman At least for now, the Encyclopedia Britannica is free to qualifying bloggers—go here. Plus, you can embed widgets on topics ranging from philosophy to American literature.
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Encyclopedia Britannica Now Free For Bloggers
http://www.techcrunch.com/ 2008/ 04/ 18/ encyclopedia-britannica-now-free-for-bl…Encyclopedia Britannica often is used in case studies as a definitive example of how new technology can disrupt a business. Everything was great for the nearly 250 year old privately held company until the Internet came around and a Category Five hurricaned on their parade.
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To credit, or not to credit; that is the question!
http://newassignment.net/ blog/ robert_w_king/ mar2008/ 10/ to_credit_or_notThere are all kinds of role crediting systems out there. Movies have a huge list of credits; television not much so. And CNN, for example, usually has none (that I’ve seen, anyway). But let’s talk writing. Books get credits right on the front cover, and on the title page. Newspapers have bylines, and a staff section.
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