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Episode 4: Advertising on Wikipedia?
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The Panel
[edit]- Main hosts
- Guest hosts
- Guests
- Jason Calacanis (blog)
Overview
[edit]News
[edit]- Bomb threat on Wikipedia
- A high school student is arrested after threatening to blow up a school on Wikipedia.
- A study on Wikipedia showing up in search engines
- A blogger finds that you have about an 81% chance of finding a link to Wikipedia in the top 10 of a search result.
- The Hutter Prize
- The Hutter Prize is an ongoing challenge to compress a 100MB extract of Wikipedia as high as possible. It has been awarded for the first time to Alexander Ratushnyak with a compression factor of 5.86.
- Intellipedia, the US spy version of Wikipedia
- The US Intelligence community launches "Intellipedia".
- James Frey, working for Reuters?
- A News Video on Reuters appears to have similar text compared to it's Wikipedia article.
- $100 Million Confusion and Jason Calacanis
- AOL's Jason Calacanis leaves a blog post about a possible $100 million income from advertising and how it was left on the table by Jimbo Wales. This has been confused with Jimmy's 100 million dollar "Dream a little..." post. Jimmy has posted on his blog about this issue to clear things up. Jason Calacanis (blog) comes to talk with us about his post.