Archive for December, 2005
Thursday, December 15th, 2005
Wikipedia As Accurate As Brittanica
This morning CNN.com reported that the journal Nature recently performed a study that was published in an online article yesterday. This study concluded that, in covering scientific topics, Wikipedia is about as accurate as the Encyclopedia Brittanica.
They did side-by-side comparisons of articles on a wide variety of science-related topics and concluded that factual errors, like […]
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Thursday, December 8th, 2005
Patriot Act Renewed
Today the House and the Senate reached a deal renewing the Patriot Act for another four years. Libraries CAN still be required to turn over records of particular patrons’ library usage. Here’s a snippet from a Yahoo! news article.
The compromise also makes changes to national security letters, an investigative tool used by the
FBI to compel […]
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Monday, December 5th, 2005
Wikipedia Change
According to a recent news story, Wikipedia is changing their policy toward who can edit pages on their site. In response to accusations that they allowed an article that falsly blamed someone for the Kennedy assassinations, they will now require that contributors register with them before being allowed to post information to their site. They […]
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Friday, December 2nd, 2005
Book Burro
I recently read on the Library Stuff blog about a new Firefox plugin called Book Burro. It’s a handy little tool that senses when you’re viewing a book record in your browser, then drops down a little window telling you the price of the book at various booksellers and whether any of a list of […]
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