http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/23/wikipedia-may-restrict-publics-ability-to-change-entries/?ref=technology&apage=1#comments
The online website wikipedia.com is one of the top 10 web sites on the Internet. Wikipedia is known as the website of everything. On Wikipedia you can add or change information about someone or something. It’s like an encyclopedia where everyone can add their input of the facts. But now administrators of the website are putting a lock on who is allowed to put their input on to the website because there have been several incidents of “vandalism”. One example was when a couple of “vandals” incorrectly reported that Senator Edward Kennedy and Robert Byrd had died. Now Wikipedia executives are trying to implement a new system call Flagged Revisions. This new system would only allow registered, reliable users to add their writings to the viewing of the general public. The Flagged Revisions system has been used by the German Wikipedia since May as a test case. According to Wikipedia creator, Jimmy Wales, “This nonsense would have been 100% prevented by Flagged Revisions”.
Wikipedia is an encyclopedia first and foremost. It is not a platform for vandals and persons seeking self promotion. As a user of Wikipedia, I have always thought that all the material on the website was true. Now that I know that there are people out their falsifying information on the website, it kind of puts it in perspective that some of the information I used might have been not true. I think that the Wikipedia administrators are doing their best to try to help stop and correct all of these erroneous pieces of information that people put on the website. The Flagged Revision is a small step to fixing the problem. If only the registered and reliable users are allowed to add their part to the articles then there should be no problem about false information. Anything that will make the truth come out in the articles is going to be a benefit to everyone
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Journal #1, Jan 18.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/17/technology/internet/17video.html?ref=technology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxee
Everyone that has cable television knows that there are certain channels that you do not watch. Cable does not give you the option to just pay for the channels you watch. But there is a new service called Boxee that gives you just that. Boxee is open source software, where anyone can add or modify the program, which allows access to the Internet and music sites and brings it to a large monitor or television. Boxee allows your PC hard drive to connect to your television and give the user access to all the photos, videos, music on their hard drive through their TV. It also allows the user to access television shows and other types of entertainment from websites. Boxee gathers all the entertainment in to an organized directory to choose from by using the directional arrows on your remote. Boxee only works on Linux and Mac computers as well as the Apple TV. The Boxee Company is currently working on a version that is compatible with Windows PC’s.
I think the Boxee software is a revolutionary idea. Why pay for all the channels you do not watch on cable when you could have a program where you can access not only your television shows but everything on hard drive from music to photos. This is a new way to watch television and surf the Internet without even moving form your seat. But I also think there are many downfalls to this program. I personally do not have an Apple TV so this software would not work with my television. They would have to find a way to have this program be accessible through other televisions and computers. I have a feeling that all the cable companies can not be to happy with this new idea. Either way Boxee is becoming a new wave of television watching and in my opinion regarded as one of the great technology breakthroughs of the 2000’s.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxee
Everyone that has cable television knows that there are certain channels that you do not watch. Cable does not give you the option to just pay for the channels you watch. But there is a new service called Boxee that gives you just that. Boxee is open source software, where anyone can add or modify the program, which allows access to the Internet and music sites and brings it to a large monitor or television. Boxee allows your PC hard drive to connect to your television and give the user access to all the photos, videos, music on their hard drive through their TV. It also allows the user to access television shows and other types of entertainment from websites. Boxee gathers all the entertainment in to an organized directory to choose from by using the directional arrows on your remote. Boxee only works on Linux and Mac computers as well as the Apple TV. The Boxee Company is currently working on a version that is compatible with Windows PC’s.
I think the Boxee software is a revolutionary idea. Why pay for all the channels you do not watch on cable when you could have a program where you can access not only your television shows but everything on hard drive from music to photos. This is a new way to watch television and surf the Internet without even moving form your seat. But I also think there are many downfalls to this program. I personally do not have an Apple TV so this software would not work with my television. They would have to find a way to have this program be accessible through other televisions and computers. I have a feeling that all the cable companies can not be to happy with this new idea. Either way Boxee is becoming a new wave of television watching and in my opinion regarded as one of the great technology breakthroughs of the 2000’s.
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