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Poor Wikipedia. Professional Golfer Fuzzy Zoeller is suing one of its contributors for a defamatory cyber-attack. And last year, television host and comedian Stephen Colbert urged his audience to vandalize a Wikipedia entry about elephants to prove the point that in a model where any user can edit encyclopedia entries, those entries are only as good as their source. Take the case of retired journalist John Seigenthaler, a former assistant to Attorney General Robert Kennedy, who was wrongfully accused of involvement in the assassination of Robert and John Kennedy by an anonymous Wikipedia contributor in 2005. Given the controversy...
...Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T10 digital camera ($350, sonystyle.com...
...kiss via Facebook’s new “gift shop” feature—and make a charitable donation while you’re at it. The gift shop, launched last week, allows members to send their friends an icon of anything from a box of cyber chocolates to a roll of toilet paper. The shop is the brainchild of recent Harvard alums and current Facebook employees, Jared S. Morgenstern ’03 and William P. Chen ’06, according to Facebook spokeswoman Brandee D. Barker. In February, every member’s first...
...biggest draw, without a doubt, is its human factor, and WoW's fans have quickly shaped Azeroth into a second Earth. Players hunt for gold, and epic items, then put them up for sale on eBay, thus turning a hobby into a livelihood. They have cyber-sex, date, and get married. They hang out with old friends who may live hundreds of miles away...
...according to Chris Probert, the social marketing manager of Adbusters. “It’s not only about changing your habits on one day, but thinking about a lifestyle commitment to consuming less and producing less waste,” Probert said. Today, though, is Cyber Monday, the unofficial start of the online shopping season. Berk’s shoe store, a locally-owned corner shop on JFK and Winthrop Streets, is one business that is expanding its reach by emphasizing online sales. Marc Pinansky, Berk’s manager, said online sales have increased at least...