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Integration Developers: Countdown to UN Debate over Internet future |
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The next meeting of the United Nations' WGIG (Working Group on Internet Governance) appears to be crafting a big wish list for how and who controls worldwide governance, spam, security for the Internet.
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Editor & Publisher: 'IHT' Partners with OhMyNews |
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The New York Times Co.-owned International Herald Tribune has struck a deal with South Korea-based OhMyNews International to run articles written by members of the public alongside those by established writers, according to published reports.
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EDGE: Digital Maoism |
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[There is] a new online collectivism that is nothing less than a resurgence of the idea that the collective is ]all-wise, that it is desirable to have influence concentrated in a bottleneck that can channel the collective with the most verity and force.
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CNET: Brewster Kahle's mission: Archiving everything |
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Brewster Kahle is on a mission. He wants the whole planet to have access to human knowledge. All human knowledge. And he's striving to make that possible--one byte at a time.
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iTWire: Is aggregation the future of news? |
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An interesting and some might consider disturbing aspect of the latest iteration of the web is the burgeoning popularity of news aggregation websites. These sites contribute no original content of their own other than reader comments and often do not even have editorial oversight.
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BetaNews: Microsoft Office Gets Creative Commons Add-In |
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Microsoft and non-profit licensing organization Creative Commons said Wednesday that they had struck a deal to allow Office users to add the group's licensing to their documents. This could ramp up the rate at which content is placed in the commons.
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openDemocracy: Critique of the global digital commons |
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The commons movement may be groundbreaking and innovative but as it hurtles towards a global model, it risks the privatisation of culture and a disregard for national boundaries, says David M Berry.
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New Media: Web Users Open the Gates |
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A decade after major news providers began publishing on the Internet, they are starting to realize how disruptive Web technology is to traditional journalism.
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Huffington Post: The People Formerly Known as the Audience |
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(Opinion) The people formerly known as the audience wish to inform media people of our existence, and of a shift in power that goes with the platform shift you've all heard about.
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The IPTV Revolution |
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The long-anticipated convergence of television, radio and the Internet is upon us. The ability to broadcast high-quality video and audio streams - with interactivity - from any source directly to millions of living rooms, vehicles and wireless devices through IP connections is now emerging. And the implications to traditional media are incalculable...
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The Future Medium |
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An essay on the future vision of the Digital Universe: "In 2010, the Future Medium will be fulfilling the role of the public broadcasting system of the Internet, a genuinely new, powerful medium built by and for the public, owned and governed by civil society, financially supporting those who get involved." --Joseph P. Firmage, CEO, ManyOne Networks
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San Jose Mercury News: Directing the Digital Universe |
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It's Wiki-PBS. More than three years ago, Joe Firmage began work on Digital Universe, what could be called the anti-Wikipedia, the community-edited and controversial Internet encyclopedia. The goal is to assemble information in one place on the Web that has the up-to-date feel of Wikipedia -- but backed by expert oversight.
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The Guardian: A Wikipedia written by experts |
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Larry Sanger seems to have a thing about free online encyclopedias. Although his main claim to fame is as the co-founder, along with Jimmy Wales, of Wikipedia, that is just one of several projects to produce large-scale, systematic stores of human knowledge he has been involved in.
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Encyclopedia of Earth reaches 400 published articles |
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The Encyclopedia of Earth (EoE), a partnership between the Environmental Information Coalition, the Digital Universe Foundation and ManyOne Networks, has reached a milestone of over 400 published articles. EoE is therefore well on its way to reaching the goal of 1000 published articles, the threshold that Editor in Chief Cutler Cleveland has set for the formal public launch of EoE.
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Press Release: Digital Universe Launches Expert Recruitment Program |
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The Digital Universe Foundation today announced the official launch of its Steward Recruitment Program, which is already attracting leading experts from around the globe to oversee content development and editing for their areas of knowledge.
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Nature: Digital Universe (PDF) |
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Is it feasible to peer-review the Internet? A coalition of science agencies and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs is trying to do just that.
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USA Today: Digital Universe |
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It's a lofty ambition - the Internet equivalent of PBS, a user-supported resource... top academics to create authoritative maps, articles and links to third-party content related to virtually any scholarly topic.
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MSNBC: Digital Universe opens for public tryout |
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The organizers of an effort to build a nonprofit "PBS of the Web" say their software is finally ready for a public tryout, if not for prime time.
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Release Notes & Road Map |
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Thank you for visiting the Digital Universe. This beta release of the Digital Universe is the first version designed to work on Windows, Macintosh, and Linux/Unix computers. Supported browsers include Firefox, Internet Explorer 6, and Safari. Safari has some known problems yet to be resolved. While all of these are supported, FireFox is the recommended browser for all computer platforms.
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A letter from the Founders |
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We're writing today to announce that the Digital Universe is now live at digitaluniverse.net, and that we have unveiled the invitation to experts and the public to get directly involved in the project at dufoundation.org. The mission of the Digital Universe is ambitious and never-ending: to organize and contextualize the sum total of human knowledge and make it available to everyone online. It is a growing network of commercial-free portals mapping the highest-quality Internet destinations, as recommended by experts recognized in their fields.
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Encyclopedia of Earth |
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Welcome to the Encyclopedia of Earth, a new electronic reference about the Earth, its natural environments, and their interaction with society. The Encyclopedia is a free, fully searchable collection of articles written by scholars, professionals, educators, and experts who collaborate and review each other’s work. The articles are written in non-technical language and will be useful to students, educators, scholars, professionals, as well as to the general public.
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