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Jimmy Wales speaks with Poynter about AP topic pages

By Michael Becker | Published: November 16, 2009
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales spoke with Poynter about the Associated Press’s plan to pro­duce some sort of top­ics pages for news. This com­ment from Wales stuck out to me. People do often come to Wikipedia when major news is break­ing. This is not our pri­mary inten­tion, but of course it hap­pens. The rea­son that it hap­pens is [...]
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Montana ACLU congratulates Bozeman for rescinding password policy

By Michael Becker | Published: August 3, 2009
The ACLU of Montana con­grat­u­lated the City of Bozeman for rescind­ing its pass­word pol­icy in an undated state­ment posted to the organization’s Web site. “While an employer can (and likely should dur­ing the course of a back­ground check) view an applicant’s pub­lic pro­file on online sites, demand­ing access to infor­ma­tion that appli­cant has set to pri­vate — [...]
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Top-down syndication is broken, says Jackie Hai

By Michael Becker | Published: April 16, 2009
Jackie Hai: [T]he AP has failed to grasp is that the evo­lu­tion of the par­tic­i­pa­tory web has blurred the line between con­tent pro­duc­ers, dis­trib­u­tors and con­sumers to the point where every­body can be any and all of the three. The news wire of the future will not be cen­tral­ized and top-down, but rather dis­trib­uted and bottom-up. (via [...]
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