On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 3:17 PM, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/10/8 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com:
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Microsofts-Bing-Adds-Reference-Page-634550/
http://www.bing.com/reference
Bing is attempting to differentiate itself with a nicer reference
page.
KillerChihuahua wrote:
So if you're verbose in the name of Liberalism, that's wordy and bad, but
if you're verbose in the name of Conservatism, that's strong and good?
check. I'll remember that. I'd hate to be verbose for all the wrong reasons.
That's not the distinction that I would
2009/10/9 Durova nadezhda.dur...@gmail.com:
The report on National Public Radio the other day stated it was unlikely the
FTC would be very aggressive about this. Yet the piece's principal focus
was bloggers. It'd be an interesting question how they'd handle the matter
when it bleeds over to
Carcharoth wrote:
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 5:37 AM, stevertigo stv...@gmail.com wrote:
snip
Well the WP:SOHE idea to me seems a reasonable compromise -- one that
makes small parts of copyright texts open to our research needs, while
still respecting the needs of authors to keep whole
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 2:15 AM, Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net wrote:
stevertigo wrote:
Well, in our defence, hardly anyone used IPA before and now its
everywhere -- thanks to us and people like Nohat, who IIRC got that
started here.
Yes, I remember the debate between using IPA and SAMPA.
Interesting article about how the International Olympic Committee is
cracking down even on CC-SA licenses:
http://www.thestar.com/olympics/article/707868--olympics-warns-man-about-sharing-photos-on-website
I am certainly not in the forefront of the free information pack, but even I
find this
stevertigo wrote:
David Goodman wrote:
Quite apart from the incredible range available from a research
library, the great majority of *Wikipedians,* even experienced ones, do
not use even those sources which are made available free from local
public libraries to residents.
Do
Who doesn't enjoy when a NGO imposses its unilateral will upon the world?
-- Sent from my Palm Pre
Risker wrote:
Interesting article about how the International Olympic Committee is
cracking down even on CC-SA licenses:
Carcharoth wrote:
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 5:37 AM, stevertigo stv...@gmail.com wrote:
Well the WP:SOHE idea to me seems a reasonable compromise -- one that
makes small parts of copyright texts open to our research needs, while
still respecting the needs of authors to keep whole works
stevertigo wrote:
Carcharoth wrote:
WP:SOHE being the page that you wrote recently:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sourcehelpers
Did you not think of trying to make Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource
Exchange more active, rather than starting a new page and a new
proposal?
I
stevertigo wrote:
The philosophic roots of this view make sense, but how do we resolve the
opposing tendencies of bottlenecks on one side and dispersion of ideas
on the other?
Instead of fixing a hole, or not doing something for fear of creating
new holes (or just for fear of holes in
Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote:
I gave up. Eventually I came across a controversial topic that
particularly interested me, where I had the background to understand
the sources and where my research radically changed my mind. So I
started working on it, I even bought a pile of books about it (on
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