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Buzzword Bingo: How Binded (Blockai) Says the Blockchain Will Protect Your Copyright, and Other Nonsense

23 July, 20164 June, 2018DeBunking, Intellectual Property, Wikipedia, Writing18 Comments

Bitcoin and other pseudo-currencies are a hot topic right now, and startups are coming up with all sorts of ways to take advantage of the buzz...

Wikipedia, TurnItIn Team Up on Copyright

3 November, 201512 May, 2017Intellectual Property, WikipediaLeave a comment

Turnitin has long used Wikipedia as a data source when scouring students’ papers for plagiarism, and now it is returning the favor. eSchoolNews reports that TurnItIn and Wikipedia have collaborated on a...

Wikipedia Suspends 381 User Accounts for Suspected Fraud, Extortion

1 September, 20151 September, 2015WikipediaLeave a comment

Wikipedia’s greatest strengths is that anyone can edit it. Conversely, the online encyclopedia’s greatest weakness is that anyone can edit it. The Wikimedia Foundation, parent organization of...

Wikipedia for iOS v4.1.0 Brings New Sharing Option, Improved Search

15 April, 20153 September, 2015e-Reading Software, WikipediaLeave a comment

Wikipedia announced a major update for its iPad and iPhone app today which adds a number of features and tweaks to the layout of the articles (including a couple...

Wikipedia Expands Auto-Translate Feature

12 January, 201512 January, 2015Wikipedia2 Comments

The foreign language editions of Wikipedia have long proven to be a useful way for me to research background details for posts on this blog, and...

Wikipedia Adds Epub to its eBook Download Options – No More PDF, Yay!

18 September, 201213 May, 2017ebook tools, Wikipedia5 Comments

As much as I am online everyday I am still reminded that offline still rules the roost. Wikipedia is accessible from any web browser, but even...