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Google Knol Released

This past December I discussed how Google's Knol is a new Wikipedia competitor which will make it more difficult for smaller companies to rank high on search engines. If you think ranking high for specific keywords is tough today, just...

Posted on July 23, 2008 12:47 PM

CNN Anchor Caught with Drugs

Apparently reporting the news is as depressing as watching it. This might explain why CNN News anchor Richard Quest was caught with a small bag of methamphetamine in his pocket. In case you are curious about this particular drug, Wikipedia...

Posted on April 19, 2008 6:27 PM

Fake Apple Keynote

It is amazing what a cult of personality Steve Jobs has become. It has gotten to the point where speculators not only try to figure out what Jobs will say but now they are even writing a full speech (or...

Posted on January 14, 2008 4:25 PM

NY Times vs. Blogs: A Surprise Winner

I find the competition between blogs and news outlets fascinating as here at TMC we have dozens of reporters and a number of bloggers as well. Today I was reading Workbench by Rogers Cadenhead and I learned of the following...

Posted on December 21, 2007 1:21 PM

Google Knol: Squeezing out the Little Guy

Google will soon be launching Knol – a knowledge archive similar to Wikipedia with the exception being t hat authors of content will be tracked more closely and ads will optionally be allowed to run on listings with authors...

Posted on December 14, 2007 2:07 PM

Trolltech

I spent a few minutes on Wikipedia today searching for information on Norway. I wanted to learn more about this country I had never been to and while searching I discovered the country is a Kingdom in fact and...

Posted on March 27, 2007 7:28 AM

Wikipedia Mistakes

The New York Times has an interesting story on Wikipedia and how it can get students in trouble because some of its entries are flawed. I use the reference somewhat frequently and sometimes forget that individual entries can be mistaken....

Posted on February 24, 2007 7:41 PM

Wikipedia Dead Links

Russell Shaw raises an interesting point about a problem with Wikipedia being the fact that links expire. I know someone who words for a rival publisher and this company makes an encyclopedia as well. This person’s job is to scan...

Posted on February 17, 2007 7:44 PM

More Bad Wikipedia News

This article in the Toronto Star details continued credibility problems with Wikipedia and cites egos and people’s need to rewrite history to their liking as reasons the online encyclopedia is seriously flawed. Excerpt:These questions reportedly prompted the business editor of...

Posted on December 19, 2005 10:28 AM

Britannica gets the Last Laugh

A few people ruin it for others. This is always the case in life. I think about this all the time. For example, the massive security increases in airports, spam, viruses, etc. In all these cases a small percentage of...

Posted on December 15, 2005 2:39 PM

When Bad Wiki Posts Happen To Good People

The question of the validity of Wikipedia comes to light when such pranks are brought to light. We use Wikipedia a lot around TMC and I have found the quality of the reference tool to be excellent. The strength of...

Posted on December 12, 2005 8:47 AM