No need for government Net controls, say U.S. tech workers
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| Presidential hopefuls, take note: America's high-tech workforce would
| generally prefer that government keep its hands off the Internet, privacy
| matters included.
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9835347-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Wikipedia: No Place for PR
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| Anyone assigned to manage a product or person's image is advised to tread
| cautiously in this open source world. In January 2007, Microsoft was ordered
| off Wikipedia when it was discovered that the company had paid a blogger to
| tweak an entry for Microsoft Office Open XML format.
|
| As a form of punishment, Wikipedia published part of an e-mail from a
| Microsoft employee to the Australian blogger, asking him to edit the article.
| Policing the pages gets more complicated. What if it's not a company or a PR
| agency? It depends on the bias of the editing.
|
| Bias on Wikipedia is not tolerated. Last year, the site banned for one week
| edits coming from the IP addresses belonging to U.S. congressional staffers
| when it was revealed that some had been editing and censoring articles about
| elected officials. In the old days, governments used to ban the publication
| of literature. In the Web 2.0 world, publishers are banning -- or at least
| censoring -- the government.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/Wikipedia-No-Place-for-PR-60812.html
According to recently-released tools, Microsoft continues defacing Wikipedia to
reflect on its own 'religion' (Microsoft is still the world's saviour in its
own eyes).
Related:
CIA, FBI computers used for Wikipedia edits
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| The changes may violate Wikipedia's conflict-of-interest guidelines, a
| spokeswoman for the site said on Thursday.
|
| The program, WikiScanner, was developed by Virgil Griffith of the Santa Fe
| Institute in New Mexico and posted this month on a Web site that was quickly
| overwhelmed with searches.
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http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyid=2007-08-16T224359Z_01_N16428960_RTRUKOC_0_US-SECURITY-WIKIPEDIA.xml
http://tinyurl.com/2om2aq
Edit by Microsoft Corp.:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=prev&oldid=3864532
Edit by the MSBBC:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George_W._Bush&diff=prev&oldid=9152976
Vote On the Most Shameful Wikipedia Spin Jobs
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| Caltech graduate student Virgil Griffith just launched an unofficial
| Wikipedia search tool that threatens to lay bare the ego-editing and
| anonymous flacking on the site. Enter the name of a corporation, organization
| or government entity and you get a list of IP addresses assigned to it. Then
| with one or two clicks, you can see all the anonymous edits made from those
| addresses anywhere in Wikipedia's pages.
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http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/08/vote-on-the-top.html
Microsoft Hires Programmer to edit Wikipedia Entry For OOXML
http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/79130/index.html
Microsoft Program Manager: Wikipedia is a Giant Joke
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| I am especially amused by all the bits in red font since they are
| either borderline libel or just straight up hilarious.
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http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=136975bc-b378-4408-bf7e-dbaa28fe21e6
Cjhebgen re-writing SCO's history on Wikipedia
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| It's very interesting what changes they try and make. Like they've
| removed the link to Groklaw
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http://messages.finance.yahoo.com/Stocks_(A_to_Z)/Stocks_S/threadview?m=tm&bn=2942&tid=415572&mid=415572&tof=5&frt=2
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