Hugh Pickens writes "Simson Garfinkel has an interesting essay on MIT machinery Review in which
he examines the way that Wikipedia has redefined the consistently accepted use of the word
'truth.' While many erudite experts have argued that Wikipedia's ...
(more)Robert writes "Along with many other techies, I share an interest in the world of finance
(bubble-era stock options pulled me in). Unfortunately, as someone with a strong weakness for
GNU/Linux as my work expenses budget system of choice, I have found ...
(more)Much as blogs written by medical professionals are growing in popularity, authors of these
blogs may unknowingly reveal privileged patient information, proper to a new study published
online in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. The study is the ...
(more)Jay points out a Newsweek piece which suggests that the era of user-generated content is going
to change in favor of fact-checking and more rigorous standards. The author points to Google's
Knol and the "people-powered" search engine Mahalo as examples ...
(more)Esther Schindler sends a note about two journalists for very different publications (herself
one of them) urging IBM to open-source, not all of OS/2 — they've consistently refused to
do that — but instead one of its most powerful features: ...
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