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...Leon Neyfakh Two new issues of the Harvard Lampoon came out recently—“Cigarettes and Pornography” and “The Wiki Number.” The first one’s about vice, and the second is about computers. One of the jokes is that they’re both tiny—literally much smaller than most Lampoons. They’re calling them Lampoon Minis; there are three so far and each one is just 15 little pages long. The first and best one, “The Finer Things...
...Wiki Spawns Rival New site aims for more accuracy Citizendium, a new Wikipedia-like online encyclopedia, has debuted in limited beta testing. Anyone can write an entry (apply at citizendium.org) but editing is limited to chosen experts...
Harvard Law School Berkman Center for Internet and Society fellow David D. Weinberger questioned the changing nature of authority in the internet age in a discussion entitled “The Authority of Wikipedia” last night. “In order to have authority at Wiki[pedia] you must be willing to negotiate what you consider to be the truth,” said Weinberger, who is also an author and a blogger. Wikipedia is a popular online encyclopedia that is written and edited by the public. The site—www.wikipedia.org—is known...
...took that particularly amiss. I think that John Sigenthaler Sr. [Sigenthaler, a former aide to Robert F. Kennedy, wrote a furious editorial after a false biography of him emerged on Wikipedia] mystified a lot of Internet natives, who said “So you found something inaccurate on a wiki? Why didn’t you just change...
...viewing an aerial photograph of the local area, or select Hybrid View to see the photo with streets and major places labeled. Going forward, the company says it plans to give users the ability to add points of interest and other details to maps of neighborhoods they know-wiki style-and to add a filtering tool so that you can control how much and what type of data appears on your map. MSN's main search page has already been revamped. When you search keywords, you can click through different sets of results: Web links, news items, images and Encarta...