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Whatever happens to Wikipedia, the wiki genie is out of the bottle. There are wikibooks for collaborative nonfiction, wikipes for recipes and wikimedia for citizen journalists. Wales has a for-profit website, Wikicities, where anyone can form a community. (The two largest are geeking out on the chronologies of Star Wars and Star Trek.) "It's a form of brainstorming that's bigger than one person standing at a flip chart," says Cunningham. "And there's a timelessness to it. You can do a wiki over one year or 10." And have almost as much fun as Jimmy Wales does...
...OhmyNews, the feisty phenomenon that is rewriting the rules for Korean media and, if founder Oh Yeon Ho has his way, may soon be doing the same outside Korea as well. Part blog, part professional news agency, OhmyNews gets up to 70% of its copy from some 38,000 "citizen reporters" like Chang-basically anyone with a story and a laptop to write it on. Editors vet the articles, rejecting nearly one-third. Launched in 2000, it has snowballed into a kind of raucous online mall for Korea's wired younger generation-a place to get news, absorb the buzz...
...risk what will surely seem at first a highly inappropriate term?charming. Yes, charming ... The film's second, longer half deals with professional-level competition in the Mr. Olympia contest. The filmmakers have found an ideal protagonist ... 'the one and only' Arnold Schwarzenegger, 29, an Austrian-born U.S. citizen, six times winner of this title and anxious to retire on a seventh victory. A cool, shrewd and boyish charmer, HE EXUDES THE EASY CONFIDENCE OF A MAN WHO HAS ALWAYS KNOWN HE WILL BE A STAR OF SOME KIND (and who could, if this movie takes off, become a multimedia...
...CITIZEN KANE 1941; ORSON WELLES...
Cottle seems to think that criminals have more rights than an individual defending his person and property. The gun-control crowd claims that a Wild West shootout will break out if people have the right to carry a firearm. But if the government cannot protect its citizens, then they have every right to defend themselves. When confronted by a criminal, the law-abiding citizen should not be required to run-with the possibility of getting a bullet in the back...