Tag Archives: wikipedia

ArsTechnica – Wikipedia to join reddit in SOPA blackout Wednesday

I’ll also be post­ing a mes­sage to protest and inform peo­ple about PIPA and SOPA, though I imag­ine Wikipedia will have a much larger influence.

January 16, 2012 – 7:38 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Politics, Quick Posts, Security | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Ars Technica – Wikipedia editors voting on plan to “shutter” violent and sexual images

Not a bad plan, it’s a rea­son­able bal­ance between still pro­vid­ing a visual rep­re­sen­ta­tion of what­ever and mak­ing it eas­ier for peo­ple who don’t want to be “shocked” at the sight of the image.

August 18, 2011 – 9:35 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Art, Communication, Culture, Quick Posts, Web Design | Tagged , , | Comments Off

CNET News – Congressman wants WikiLeaks listed as terrorist org

In short every­body has a reac­tion, over­all mine is Wik­ileaks is a valu­able ser­vice, in no way is it a ter­ror­ist organization.

December 1, 2010 – 1:28 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Copyright, Politics, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

100,000th Knol Published and No One Cares But Google

Knol is a ridicu­lous scheme by Google to cre­ate a Wikipedia onto it’s own, except one that’s worse. Knol takes the idea that there is actu­ally a sin­gle per­son out there who is an expert on a field and uses them to write an arti­cle on it, and through every­body else going, “Hey, great Knol” …

February 8, 2009 – 10:03 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Social Media | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (14)