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Wikipedia

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 […]

More on .xxx

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 […]

Dot XXX Could be Good

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 […]

Cheap iBook Mob Scene

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 […]

Tivo for Internet Radio

If you like talk radio, have an iPod, and haven’t yet tried it, check out Radio Time. You can easily fill your digital music player with hours and hours of Laura Ingraham, Dennis Prager, Rush Limbaugh, or Sean Hannity. Then listen when you feel like it. It’s not free, but it is reasonably priced and […]