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President Barack Obama speaks during a Democratic campaign fundraiser at the Nob Hill Masonic Center in San Francisco, California, Feb. 16, 2012. Photograph by Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images. In the middle of 2008, Derek Dukes decided he wanted to help Barack Obama get elected president. He started raising money for the campaign, largely through the Local Lefties mailing list that his girlfriend helpe
How to beat Amazon's Kindle.
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Digg, Wikipedia, and the myth of Web 2.0 democracy.
Technology The Wisdom of the Chaperones Digg, Wikipedia, and the myth of Web 2.0 democracy. It’s getting harder to be a Wikipedia-hater. The user-generated and -edited online encyclopedia—which doesn’t even require contributors to register—somehow holds its own against the Encyclopedia Britannica in accuracy, a Nature study concluded, and has many times more entries. But even though people are cat
Why Yahoo! Answers is a librarian's worst nightmare.
Technology A Librarian’s Worst Nightmare Yahoo! Answers, where 120 million users can be wrong. When it does battle on the Web, Google rarely loses. Last year’s closure of Google Answers, however, marked a rare setback for the search giant. An even bigger shock is that Yahoo! succeeded where Google failed. Yahoo! Answers —a site where anyone can post a question in plain English, including queries t
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