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Wikipedia Celebrates 10 Years of Crowd-Sourced Smarts

Let's take a journey to a distant time where knowledge was hard to come by: the year 2000. Back then, if you wanted to find out the gross domestic product of Belarus or the wingspan of a B-10 bomber, your best bet was to head to a library and dig out a specialist book. Should you need quick access to a more arcane piece...

Indie Rocker Sets Morgan Freeman's Wikipedia Page to Music

(Aug. 25) -- Earlier this summer, indie rock musician Alex Schaaf had lots of musical ideas but was having trouble coming up with lyrics that were fitting for his funk-influenced tunes. So he turned to an unlikely source for inspiration: Morgan Freeman. Well, Morgan Freeman's Wikipedia page to be exact (and a detour with...

Wikipedia Tells FBI to Check Its Source

(Aug. 3) -- So, you get a letter from the FBI asking you to comply with a demand, or face "further legal action." Most people would be reaching for the Depends adult diapers right then, if they hadn't soiled themselves already. But not Wikipedia. When the FBI sent the user-generated encyclopedia a letter demanding that...

Pentagon Goes Wiki With Crowdsourced Tech Project

(July 30) -- Can a thousand people working together design a product better than one person, or a small group of people, could? That's the provocative question behind crowdsourced design, an increasingly popular practice in the commercial sector -- and one that seems to have caught the Pentagon's attention, too. The...

Odds Are Good You'll Think This Story Is Odd

(May 31) -- The odds are good that you'll like this story. In fact, there is a 1 in 3 chance you'll link this story to Facebook. For the record, those are the same odds that you will stiff a masseuse on a tip or that the next person you meet will believe in UFOs or ghosts. Oh, and 1 in 3 people are convinced it's...