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Decriminalizing marijuana would be good for V.I. --
Amsterdam :: Netherlands | 1 day ago
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Ivan Butcher II Thursday, November 19th 2009 I did not, I have not, I am not encouraging or promoting the use of marijuana by anyone, but I believe the decriminalization of marijuana should be considered for the impact it would have on our potential to...
Tags: prescription drugs, decriminalize marijuana, Wikipedia, Netherlands, Amsterdam, Healthcare in the United States, Cannabis in Oregon, Legal and medical status of cannabis, Cannabis in the United States, Medicinal plants, Cannabis, Social Issues
Globalive to keep 800 of its cellphone division employees on payroll
Montreal :: Canada | 2 days ago
Credibility Globalive says it will keep 800 employees it hired for its new cellphone service, despite the fact the wireless business is facing difficulties getting started. Globalive from launching its Wind Mobile phone service earlier this month, ruling the Toronto-based...
Tags: webby award, internet, decade, award, webby, allnews, internet moments, annual webby, Wikipedia, Canada, Montreal, Blog hosting services, Social media, Webby Awards, Facebook, Entertainment Culture, Web 2.0, Online social networking, Twitter, Technology Internet, Social information processing, Human Interest, Retail, Globalive, Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, A, Labor, Craigslist, AdWords, Google, Space Shuttle Atlantis, Smartphone, S&P/TSX 60 Index, Telus
Let's kensaku — searching the Web in Japanese
Hiroshima :: Japan | 3 days ago
Credibility A friend in another country e-mails a plea for help in finding information in Japanese due to their encountering any one of several obstacles. For instance, the operating system or software on the computer they are using might not be able to input Japanese...
Tags: Sato, Japan Language, Yukio Mishima, Baidu, Wikipedia, The Japan Times Has, searched engines, Japan, Hiroshima, Kana, Mon, Kanji, Hiragana, Yukio
Jimmy Wales interview: Wikipedia is focusing on accuracy
Monte Carlo :: Monaco | 3 days ago
Credibility Jimmy Wales is eating dinner alongside Princess Caroline of Monaco ...Wales , the man who co-founded Wikipedia eight years ago, is in Monaco to be awarded the Monaco Media Prize at the principality’s annual invite-only media forum.
Tags: Wikipedia, Mr Wales, Jimmy Wales, version offing, Wikia Search, Monaco Media Prize, group offing, Monaco, Monte Carlo, Social information processing, Online encyclopedias, Technology Internet, Wikia, Human-computer interaction, Hypertext
How One Story Can Lead To Another
I found this video clip to be interesting. Rocketboom is a pretty weird new channel on Youtube. I tend to go there just to be weirded out. And though this one wasn’t as weird as they are normally, it was interesting. If you’ve ever...
Tags: video, rocketboom, 9/11, plane, crash, bubble, gum, baseball, New York City, Web 2.0, Wikipedia, Entertainment Culture, Blogs, Internet culture, allnews
Wikipedia sued by German killers in privacy claim
Berlin :: Germany | 8 days ago
Credibility The case has become an instant online cause celebre – with one lawyer saying that the integrity of history itself is at stake – because it ranges the US's First Amendment, which guarantees freedom of speech, against German privacy and criminal laws, which...
Tags: Germany, Berlin, Tron, Privacy, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Jimmy Wales, Wikimedia Foundation, Mike Godwin, Wikipedia, Law Crime, New encyclopedism, Web 2.0, Human-computer interaction, Hypertext
Pope surfs Web, uses email
Vatican City :: Vatican City | 8 days ago
Credibility Pope Benedict XVI regularly surfs the Internet and makes frequent use of email, the Vatican's 'communications minister' said Thursday. Speaking as a four-day conference on web communications opened at the Vatican, Monsignor Claudio Maria Celli said the...
Tags: Vatican, Wikipedia, Vatican City, Twitter, Web 2.0, YouTube, Gmail, Entertainment Culture, Technology Internet, Richard Williamson, 311, Pope Benedict XV, Society of St. Pius X, Claudio Maria Celli, Pontifical Council for Social Communications, Religion Belief, Microblogging, Identi.ca, Online social networking, Catholic Church, Pope John Paul I
Wikipedia founder joins HP in magazine project
Jerusalem :: Israel | about 1 month ago
Credibility The founder of Wikipedia has announced a new partnership with Hewlett-Packard's MagCloud printing service. Jimmy Wales says the deal will allow users to publish their own magazines using content from his for-profit company, Wikia. MagCloud allows users...
Tags: Wikipedia, Wikia, allows users
Even the 'Spies' Are Getting 'Spied' On...
The CIA has just made a sizeable investment into "Visible Technologies" a company that writes software that monitors social sites, blogs and websites that get loads of traffic, like Youtube, Amazon, Flick'r, Twitter, etc... But then again "turn-a-bout"...
Tags: Spies, CIA, Visible Technologies, YouTube, Amazon, Flickr, Twitter, Wikiscanner, Wikipedia, Vatican
Fast Company: Wikipedia Goes All Douglas Adams With Portable E-Reader
Taipei :: Taiwan | about 1 month ago
Credibility Think of Wikipedia, and your mental image probably has you sitting at a PC tapping your queries in. But that's about to change because Wikipedia's Wikireader takes the encyclopedia mobile, in a sweetly Hitchhiker's Guide kind of way. Meet the WikiReader,...
Tags: Wikipedia
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