An article from a few days ago in Wired caught my eye this morning. In What Would Jesus Wiki? author Michael Calore talks about Conservapedia, an "alternative Wikipedia" that presents history from the perspective of (religious) conservatives.
Conservapedia operates on the belief that Wikipedia's content maintains an unacceptable liberal bias. ...
Continue ReadingMark Glaser points to a blog entry by USA Today’s Patrick Cooper announcing that they will launch a new version of their site this coming weekend. Jeff Jarvis was given a sneak peak at the site and links to a screenshot of the new homepage.
Here are some key components of the new site based on my reading of Cooper’s post:
Fuzzy Zoeller is suing Wikipedia.
Well, at least, he wishes he could.
The Associated Press reported yesterday that Fuzzy Zoeller is suing a Florida-based consulting company for vandalizing his Wikipedia profile. The paragraph in question has since been removed from both Wikipedia and Answers.com (which draws lots of its info from Wikipedia articles),...
Continue ReadingThe blogosphere was shocked today when the AP published an article about an Egyptian blogger receiving a 4-year prison sentence for publishing content online that the Egyptian government deemed offensive to Islam and the Prophet Muhammad.
According to the Washington Post:
Abdel Kareem Nabil, a 22-year-old former student at Egypt's Al-Azhar University,...
Continue ReadingWith the rising popularity of user-controlled news sites, everyday citizens are no longer dependent on mainstream media to decide what in the news is important. By now, everyone knows this, and most people understand the power of a site like Digg as a traffic generator for blogs and news sites and also as a means to a highly desirable end for anyone using the Internet…viral status....
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