bits.blogs.nytimes.com - 6/25/2009
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Chris Anderson, editor of Wired magazine, said he inadvertently copied passages from Wikipedia word for word in his new book.
vqronline.org - 6/23/2009
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In the course of reading Chris Anderson’s new
book, Free: The Future of a Radical Price (Hyperion,...
$26.99), for a review in an upcoming issue of VQR, we have discovered almost a dozen passages that are reproduced nearly verbatim from uncredited ...
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technologyreview.com - 6/19/2009
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technologyreview.com —
The organization behind Wikipedia is close to launching
an editable online video encyclopedia to enhance the current...
textual one. The hope is to revolutionize the popular reference site and goad content providers--from public broadcasters to the music ...
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Wikipedia Gets Ready for a Video Upgrade
amazon.com - 6/29/2009
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amazon.com —
From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. In the digital
marketplace, the most effective price is no price at...
all, argues Anderson ( The Long Tail ). He illustrates how savvy businesses are raking it in with indirect routes from product to revenue with ...
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... Anderson has acknowledged that he screwed up with the Wikipedia and (sort of) apologizes, explaining that the lack of proper citation was due to a last minute decision to pull the footnotes. It's an explanation that some are accepting--including Jaquith, ...
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