..e scopri che una wikipedia festeggia la controversa indipendenza del Kosovo. E quando glielo fai notare ti assicurano che per loro è assolutamente NPOV.

(..e it.wiki si sconvolge quando vogliamo ricordare la giornata mondiale per la lotta all’AIDS..)

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19 Feb
2008

“Wikipedia resists call to remove images of Prophet Muhammad”, The New Zealand Herald, 18 febbraio 2008

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“High school and college students all over the world are absolutely fanatical about Wikipedia. On Facebook, Wikipedia-related fan groups number in the thousands; one boasts close to 150,000 members. There are dozens of Wikipedia-related applications. On YouTube, you can find thousands of student videos singing the praises of Wikipedia.”, Jimmy Wales, sul Washington Post di oggi, 19 febbraio 2008

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“In the realm of idiosyncratic Web sites Wikipedia has carved a unique niche. Bashed for its supposed unreliability, yet used by the same people who bash it. It serves as a sort of average of the knowledge of the world, but what happens when cultural understandings clash in how certain ideas are depicted.” da Daily Vidette di oggi, 19 febbraio 2008

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Súper Berlus: Vuelve El Caimán, Rambo, Superman, Berlusconi, Il Cavaliere. Media Italia lo celebra, la otra mitad piensa seriamente en el exilio. Su El Pais di ieri, 17 febbraio 2008.

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“If nothing is done, thousands of European performers who recorded in the late 1950s and 1960s will lose all of their airplay royalties over the next ten years,” said EU Commissioner Charlie McCreevy, the union’s internal market chief. “These royalties are often their sole pension.”
– International Herald Tribune, 14 febbraio 2008 –

Se pensano di guadagnare a sufficienza dalle royalties per farne una pensione, presumo che in vita abbiano già guadagnato bene. Pensarci prima?

L’Inghilterra si è posta lo stesso quesito a luglio e tra la frustrazione di un po’ di vecchietti noti, si è risposta “Magari no”.

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“The MySpace generation may be getting annoyed with ads and a bit bored with profile pages. The average amount of time each user spends on social networking sites has fallen by 14% over the last four months, according to market researcher ComScore. MySpace, the largest social network, has slipped from a peak of 72 million users in October to 68.9 million in December, ComScore says. ”

– Generation MySpace Is Getting Fed Up, Annoyed with the ad deluge on social networks, many users are spending less time on the sites. BusinessWeek –

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