September 22nd, 2009 
Malvika Sampat A selection of goofs, from celebs eating pets to politicians’ early deaths
Wikipedia’s just announced plans to restrict the editing of some of its articles. Under the new system, any changes made to pages of still-living people will have to be approved by an “experienced volunteer” before going online.
The change marks a significant shift in the philosophy of the openly edited user-controlled encyclopedia — and that may not be a bad thing.…
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Tags: Benefit Of The Doubt, British Prime Minister, David Beckham, Domestic Pets, Duchess Of Cornwall, Editing System, Google, Hankering, Jimmy Wales, Life In Moscow, Mad About You, Paul Reiser, Posh Spice, President Nancy Zimpher, Sergey Brin, Target, Tony Blair, University Of Cincinnati, Wikipe, Wikipedia 
Comments Off September 22nd, 2009 Malvika Sampat Some of these ghosts of the internet date right back to the very early 1990s – alongside today’s flash and multimedia-rich extravaganzas, they may look creakingly dated but, amazingly, they still work.…
Posted in Tech News Tags: 11 Years, Best Page In The Universe, Blow Torches, Cern, Cnn, Cnn Time, Granddaddy, History Of The World Wide Web, Jackie Chan, National Center For Atmospheric Research, Ncar, Page Dates, Page Don, Pinball Expo, Relic, Science Teachers, Tim Berners Lee, University Corporation For Atmospheric Research, Wikipedia, Year In Review Comments Off September 2nd, 2009 Malvika Sampat Crowd-sourcing to create an online repository of data/information has been a masterstroke from Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia! However, monitoring content in flow and validating data to be “clean” is key to building credibility. A little bit of censorship/discipline of data may actually favor Crowd-sourcing and content democratization!
Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia launched by American entrepreneur Jimmy Wales in 2001 with the idealistic intention of being an online repository of all human knowledge, announced this week that it would have to abandon one of its founding principles.…
Posted in Tech News Tags: American Entrepreneur, August 31st, Brilliant Business, Business Mind, Censorship, Democratization, False Information, Fortnight, Founding Principles, Human Knowledge, Innovator, Jimmy Wales, Masterstroke, Online Encyclopedia, Page Tab, Public Knowledge, Rethink, Revisions, Vandalism, Wikipedia Comments Off May 11th, 2009 Malvika Sampat Ever wonder what the world really looks like through someone else’s eyes? Representations of the planet have changed with the times as have the people who made them. These are just a few strange, innovative and/or humorous examples past, present and future.
Cartograms such as those above are a way to represent statistical information in visual form, expanding and contracting areas of a typical map to show various kinds of information and a readily understandable format.…
Posted in Tech News Tags: Antique Maps, Economic Activity, Energy Production, Finding A Date, Glass Cases, Great Exhibition, Humorous Examples, Male Singles, Map Of The World, Mapping The World, Political Affiliations, Production Potential, Relative Abundance, Relative Proportions, Resource Distribution, Star Trek, There Have Been Many Attempts, Understandable Format, Wikipedia, World Maps Comments Off March 28th, 2009 Malvika Sampat 
I stumbled upon this simple meta search engine ‘MyWebSearch‘, well, not quite a meta search engine but almost close to what I always wanted – one click search it all engine. I wanted to know more about this unique search engine and a search in Wikipedia says this:
MyWay Searchbar, also known as MyWay Speedbar, MyWay Search Assistant, MyWebSearch or MyWeb Searchbar, is a spyware and search toolbar program that allows the user to query Google, Ask Jeeves, Yahoo!, and LookSmart search engines.
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Posted in News Tags: Dell, Engine Search, Google, Hp, Looksmart Search, Meta Engine, Meta Search Engine, Myway, Myweb, Mywebsearch, Search Assistant, Search Engines, Speedbar, Spyware Program, Toolbar Program, Wikipedia, Yahoo, Yahoo Search Comments Off February 16th, 2009 Malvika Sampat 
From Ars Technica:
A cyberlaw professor argues that Wikipedia is doomed. The online encyclopedia will need to choose between being “high quality” and “open,” but both choices are fraught with risk.
Law professor Eric Goldman loves Wikipedia, but he’s also convinced that the site contains the “seeds of its own destruction.” In other words, not to put too fine a point upon it, Wikipedia will fail.…
Posted in Science News Tags: 1960s, Academics, Ars Technica, Boulder Colorado, Choices, Flatirons, Fraught With Risk, Goldman, Graduating Class, High Quality, Law Professor, Multiuse Room, Online Encyclopedia, Podium, Professor Eric, Seeds, Silicon, University Of Colorado, Vice Presidents, Wikipedia Comments Off February 14th, 2009 Malvika Sampat 
Photo: A diamond ring. Scientists have calculated that wurtzite boron nitride and lonsdaleite (hexagonal diamond) both have greater indentation strengths than diamond. Source: English Wikipedia.
(PhysOrg.com) — Currently, diamond is regarded to be the hardest known material in the world. But by considering large compressive pressures under indenters, scientists have calculated that a material called wurtzite boron nitride (w-BN) has a greater indentation strength than diamond.…
Posted in Science News Tags: Bn, Boron Nitride, Diamond Ring, Diamond Setting, Diamond Source, English Wikipedia, Harder Than Diamond, Hexagonal Diamond, Indentation, Jiao Tong University, Loading Conditions, Nevada Las Vegas, Physical Review Letters, Physorg, Scientists, Shanghai Jiao Tong, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, University Of Nevada, University Of Nevada Las Vegas, Wikipedia Comments Off February 6th, 2009 Tushar Mathur 
From Times Online:
The 240-year-old Encyclopaedia Britannica has taken a giant leap into the world of Web 2.0 with the launch of a new online version where users can contribute and edit content.
In a move that takes it head to head with Wikipedia, new features on the Britannica site will allow users to edit and contribute articles in return for the glory of having their name attached to the submission.…
Posted in Science News Tags: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Fans, Giant Leap, Launch, New Features, Submission, Submissions, Vetting Process, Wiki, Wikipedia Comments Off February 1st, 2009 Malvika Sampat 
The ancient Greek Temple of Hera in Selinunte, also knowns as “temple E”,From Live Science:
To honor their gods and goddesses, ancient Greeks often poured blood or wine on the ground as offerings. Now a new study suggests that the soil itself might have had a prominent role in Greek worship, strongly influencing which deities were venerated where.…
Posted in Science News Tags: Ancient Greek Temple, Ancient Greeks, Castelvetrano, Classical Period, Deities, Deity, Eighty Four, Greek Temples, Herodotus, Live Science, Local Geology, Plato, Retallack, Selinunte, Sicily Italy, Temple Of Hera, Topography, University Of Oregon, Vegetation, Wikipedia Comments Off January 28th, 2009 Tushar Mathur 
Photo from Spitzer Space Telescope (Wikipedia)
From E! Science News:
Astronomers have observed the intense heating of a distant planet as it swung close to its parent star, providing important clues to the atmospheric properties of the planet. The observations enabled astronomers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, to generate realistic images of the planet by feeding the data into computer simulations of the planet’s atmosphere.…
Posted in Science News Tags: Astronomy And Astrophysics, Atmospheric Properties, California Santa Cruz, Computer Simulations, Degrees Fahrenheit, Distant Planet, Infrared Measurements, Laughlin, Nasa, Parent Star, Realistic Images, Realistic Simulations, Science News, Six Hours, Spitzer Space Telescope, Ucsc, University Of California, University Of California Santa Cruz, Weather Report, Wikipedia Comments Off
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