Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, was on C-Span last week. The interview was fascinating. Wales explains how the site functions with a vibrant community of all-volunteer writers and editors massively collaborating to create this extremely useful encyclopedia. Anyone can write an article. Anyone can edit an article.
I know, it sounds […]
Someone alerted me an AP article on the .xxx controversy. It has some more details on the arguments that conservatives are making against it:
Skeptics argue, however, that porn sites are likely to keep their existing “.com” storefronts, even as they set up shop in the new “.xxx” domain name. And that will reduce […]
Why are conservatives groups and the Bush administration opposing the proposal for a new top-level domain (.xxx)? It makes no sense! An Internet red-light district could help keep indecent material segregated and away from children. The L.A. Times reports:
Five years after a separate space was first proposed to deal with the huge amount […]
Boy, I sure am glad we didn’t go down to get one! We seriously considered it after hearing about the $50 laptops a few weeks ago on TWIT (Episode 15). Now Drudge links to this story from a Richmond television station:
The school district had only 1,000 of these surplus computers to sell, and […]
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