Fake professor in Wikipedia storm
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Controversy erupts at internet site Wikipedia as one of its editors is found to have falsified academic credentials.
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English-derived neologism bids for world domination God alone knows what Cervantes would have made of it, but the English term "blogosphere" has slithered onto the growing list of neologisms shoehorned into the noble Castillian language, joining chatear, chip, formatear, Internet and mÃ³dem in a burgeoning list of tech and net-based foreign vocab.â¦Learn &amp; Contribute, Live &amp; Online - The Register Debates Green Computing
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Don't download it - as if you needed to be told... There's a new version of the Storm Trojan on the loose, disguised as an e-postcard but actually recruiting zombies for a botnet, according to the SANS Institute's Internet Storm Centre.â¦
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And don't even think about Wikipedia The professor of media studies at the University of Brighton has had enough of students turning in "banal and mediocre work" and decided that Google and Wikipedia must go.â¦
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Compiled by PAUL MONTELLA Sept. 19
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-- Following revelations that a high-ranking member of Wikipedia's bureaucracy used his cloak of anonymity to lie about being a professor of religion, the free Internet encyclopedia plans to ask contributors who claim such credentials to identify themselves.
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And other Cult Horrors... Re: Farewell, Wikipedia?â¦
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Before heading over to the Web 2.0 conference at the Palace Hotel in SF this morning, I couldn't resist doing some more digging into alternate user interfaces for news reading based on the NY Times keywords.  One thing I learned the hard way is that when you access the Times site from a script (not through a browser) if you try to read an article that's too old (not sure what the time limit is) it tries to redirect you to a login page (which is pretty pointless considering that there's no human being around to log in). I hit this problem yesterday, and then hit it again this morning, but couldn't remember what the problem was. So by writing it up this time I hope to remember.  No doubt some debunked hack journalist posing as a tech industry mogul will slander me for this, but the asshat asshole has no idea how blogging works, and who the fuck cares what he thinks anyway. "cheesecake"
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Bonjour mes amis! If you post a twit with my name in it following an at-sign that is exactly 140 characters in length, my little script will pick it up and add you Le Club 140. (Practicing my French!) For example... @davewiner, you are a very nice person and I enjoy sending you replies. I have actually nothing to say, but when has that stopped me before? If you posted that, your name would appear here... http://club140.org/  Of course you will be more original, won't you?  Meanwhile, in other news, Club 140 has caused at least one person to swear off Twitter forever. Too bad so sad! :-(
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Â· Speech posted on liberal Anglican websiteÂ· College principal under fire from some staff
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Great .torrent link of Joshua Kinberg being arrested.    This is of course being documented over on this MSNBC HardBlogger blog  (which btw is news in of itself).
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Month of Apple Bugs kingpin comes clean The equivalent of a virtual nuke has just been set off in the field of vulnerability research and disclosure. The identities behind two of the noms de guerre that have elicited some of the most heated vitriol over the last 12 months appear to have been disclosed.â¦
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Just came across Citizendium today which is taking advantage of the problems of spam and altered reality at Wikipedia by positioning itself as being more accurate &#038; accountable. The project, started by [Larry Sanger] a founder of Wikipedia, aims to improve on that model by adding &#8220;gentle expert oversight&#8221; and requiring contributors to use their real [...]
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Let's have a show of hands TV wit Stephen Colbert has had more fun at the expense of Wikipedia with another deeply ironic prank.â¦
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Bogus boy's departure puts trivia at risk Comment After pressure over the weekend from Wikipedia's Il Duce Jimmy Wales, the encyclopedia's most illustrious fake professor Ryan Jordan has resigned his post at Wikia Inc.â¦
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An Australian pleads guilty to fraud after posing as a dispossessed Nigerian to cheat people of their money. Also: eBay penalizes its own con men & hellip;. Microsoft's legal woes not quite over & hellip;. and more.
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Plus: Geek squad comes to the rescue. [News.com Extra]