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January 18th, 2012 8:52

SOPA is the equivalent of smashing the Gutenberg press

One of the most important technological advances in the past thousand years was Gutenberg's printing press. As one Italian bishop put it, it would take three printers working for three months to produ... Read More

January 17th, 2012 16:03

Jimmy Wales's Wikipedia shutdown shows a failure of imagination over the online piracy act

I’ve been following the Sopa (the Stop Online Piracy Act) saga with great interest over the last few months. It now seems that the legislation before the American Congress has hit the rocks after Pr... Read More

August 24th, 2011 15:04

We used to curate objects. Now we're using technology to curate our lives

Where does the word 'curator' come from? To find out, I did what any reasonable person would – I looked it up on Google, where I swiftly found myself reading about its origin from the Latin cura... Read More

January 10th, 2011 15:25

A collaboration of Wikipedians to gather at the British Library

This Friday and Saturday at the British Library Wikipedians will assemble to edit all sorts of entries, aided and guided by the library’s curators into adding new sources to entries on the King Jame... Read More

August 11th, 2010 12:39

Jimmy Wales: people think I'm responsible for Wikileaks

Jimmy Wales, the co-founder of Wikipedia, says he gets emails from people complaining about http://wikileaks.org/, the whistleblowing website. Wikileaks isn't one of Wales's websites but the "wiki" pa... Read More

August 25th, 2009 17:32

Wikipedia: the encyclopedia anyone can edit (after review by an experienced editor)

The English language version of Wikipedia will be a little less open in a few weeks time if the Wikimedia Foundation has its way. The Foundation, which runs Wikipedia, wants to trial a system of "flag... Read More

July 7th, 2009 13:24

Wikipedia should delete the deletionists

Steven Wells, a former writer for the NME whose work was legendary among readers of a certain age, died last week. As well as writing about music, Wells wrote books, directed videos, appeared on TV an... Read More
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