Terror in the Heartland » wikipedia http://www.terrorintheheartland.com Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:52:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Copyright © Terror in the Heartland 2010 cmcconnell@gmail.com (Terror in the Heartland) cmcconnell@gmail.com (Terror in the Heartland) posts Just another WordPress weblog Terror in the Heartland Terror in the Heartland cmcconnell@gmail.com No no http://www.terrorintheheartland.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg Terror in the Heartland http://www.terrorintheheartland.com 144 144 AP: Irish student hoaxes world's media with fake quote http://www.terrorintheheartland.com/2009/05/ap-irish-student-hoaxes-worlds-media-with-fake-quote/ http://www.terrorintheheartland.com/2009/05/ap-irish-student-hoaxes-worlds-media-with-fake-quote/#comments Thu, 14 May 2009 15:00:23 +0000 McChris http://www.terrorintheheartland.com/?p=253 AP: Irish student hoaxes world’s media with fake quote

Shortly after learning composer Maurice Jarre died, an Irish undergrad concocted a cheesy quote from the deceased, and posted it to Wikipedia. News outlets around the world cherry-picked the quote and ran it without first doing a fact-check.

]]> http://www.terrorintheheartland.com/2009/05/ap-irish-student-hoaxes-worlds-media-with-fake-quote/feed/ 0 Failanthropy: Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales Out of a Job http://www.terrorintheheartland.com/2009/01/failanthropy-wikipedias-jimmy-wales-out-of-a-job/ http://www.terrorintheheartland.com/2009/01/failanthropy-wikipedias-jimmy-wales-out-of-a-job/#comments Sat, 03 Jan 2009 21:23:48 +0000 McChris http://www.terrorintheheartland.com/?p=230 Valleywag: Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales Out of a Job

His board term expired, and another board member has created a bureaucratic logjam that make it difficult to re-appoint him or appoint a new member.

]]> http://www.terrorintheheartland.com/2009/01/failanthropy-wikipedias-jimmy-wales-out-of-a-job/feed/ 0 P2P Foundation: Is something fundamentally wrong with Wikipedia governance processes? http://www.terrorintheheartland.com/2008/10/p2p-foundation-is-something-fundamentally-wrong-with-wikipedia-governance-processes/ http://www.terrorintheheartland.com/2008/10/p2p-foundation-is-something-fundamentally-wrong-with-wikipedia-governance-processes/#comments Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:13:17 +0000 McChris http://www.terrorintheheartland.com/2008/10/02/p2p-foundation-is-something-fundamentally-wrong-with-wikipedia-governance-processes/ P2P Foundation: Is something fundamentally wrong with Wikipedia governance processes?

Michel Bauwens refers to the classic essay on social movements, “The Tyranny of Structurelessness,” in his analysis of complains about Wikipedia.

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