Why Wikipedia's Competitors Are Failing, And Why Knol Might Not. With the possible exception of our allegedly-sexual-predator-filled social networks, it seems safe to say that there's no internet phenomenon that causes quite as much finger-wagging consternation as Wikipedia. Is it credible? Complete? A worthy reference material? Personally, I'm content to leave these questions to the world's concerned librarians. One thing that's not in question is whether Wikipedia is successful. But, as Bennett Haselton convincingly argued on Slashdot last week, this is a problem that Google's upcoming Knol initiative is unlikely to face.
But after that initial land-grab will Knol be able to take the ball from Jimmy Wales' leviathan and run with it? But if Knol instead relies on Google's built-in promotional advantages -- aka search result dirty tricks -- it's got a real shot. January 13, 2014 - RT News. Bin Laden photos to stay top-secret, as US Supreme Court refuses case The US Supreme Court refused Monday to reverse a lower court’s ruling that deemed photos of former Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden’s corpse were properly classified as top-secret by the CIA, thus barring them from public release.
The high court decided not to hear an appeal from conservative watching organization Judicial Watch, which had sought the release of the photos via a Freedom of Information Act request. The Obama administration argued that releasing the images would cause threats to US national security. In May, a federal appeals court unanimously agreed that the US government was right to classify top secret more than 50 images of Bin Laden taken after he was killed in 2011 by US special operations forces at his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Google pays $3.2 billion for smart-home startup Internet Giant Google plans to purchase Nest Labs, a smart- home automation company for $3.2 billion. Wikipedia: Editing Truth by Mob Rule. Abby Martin - So far wikipedia has deleted two thorough. Abby Martin vs Wikipedia. Good-bye Wikipedia, hello something else. Wikipedia was the first great, high profile success story of Internet mass collaboration and produced a well-loved reference used with obsessive frequency by an entire generation.
But it is past time for us to build new forms of knowledge commons. Wikipedia is a website, controlled by a foundation. It is the work of, theoretically, the entire Internet but it is not a global commons. One tiny group can, and did, blackout the entire site for a period specified by them. Wikipedia has survived so long by being hyper aware of and sensitive to their user community, it is highly doubtful they would ever become evil, but it is nevertheless centralized control of what ought to be a global commons. As an old node in the idea of free information, Wikipedia has a rigid hierarchy of tradition and established editors. When Wikipedia was created, in 2001, it was a fascinating and liberating tool to work with.
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