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...Encyclopaedia Britannica editor once compared Wikipedia to a public toilet seat because you don't know who used it last.) Loyal Wikipedians argue that collaboration improves articles over time, just as free open-source software like Linux and Firefox is more robust than for-profit competitors because thousands of amateur programmers get to look at the code and suggest changes. It's the same principle that New Yorker writer James Surowiecki asserted in his best seller The Wisdom of Crowds: large groups of people are inherently smarter than an élite...
...downtown Manhattan, screened more than 250 films of all kinds from 45 countries and sold 135,000 tickets. The award for best documentary feature went to El Perro Negro: Stories from the Spanish Civil War, by director Peter Forgacs, a collage brilliantly assembled from the work of two amateur filmmakers of the period. The prize for best documentary short went to director Dan Krauss for The Life of Kevin Carter, the tragic story of a photojournalist who took one of the most memorable pictures of our time, of a vulture stalking a starving child in Sudan...
...hardly talented,” he says. “I’m really a generalist, an amateur...
Given the work required, hobby farming sounds a bit like hobby coal mining, but it turns out there are a lot of amateur sodbusters like Bakshis and Zang. Which is one reason TSC, based in Nashville, Tenn., expects sales to increase to $2 billion this year. In 2004 profits rose 10%, though in April quarterly net income fell. The company blamed higher costs. The stock, which has roughly doubled since 2003, tumbled briefly but recovered. "We have zeroed in on hobby farmers," says chairman Joe Scarlett. TSC has revived itself by expanding into exurban areas where there's a deepening...
...League shrinks from becoming a full-fledged Division I-A football program, even if the change is only nominal. Rather than weather the pressure to participate in playoffs or upgrade its facilities, the Ancient Eight uses the policy change as an opportunity to again pledge its commitment to amateur athletics...