Episode 4: Advertising on Wikipedia?
Released: 5 November, 2006

WikipediaWeekly episode 4.

The Panel

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Main hosts
Guest hosts
Guests
  • Jason Calacanis (blog)

Overview

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News

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  1. Bomb threat on Wikipedia
    A high school student is arrested after threatening to blow up a school on Wikipedia.
  2. A study on Wikipedia showing up in search engines
    A blogger finds that you have about an 81% chance of finding a link to Wikipedia in the top 10 of a search result.
  3. The Hutter Prize
    The Hutter Prize is an ongoing challenge to compress a 100MB extract of Wikipedia as high as possible. It has been awarded for the first time to Alexander Ratushnyak with a compression factor of 5.86.
  4. Intellipedia, the US spy version of Wikipedia
    The US Intelligence community launches "Intellipedia".
  5. James Frey, working for Reuters?
    A News Video on Reuters appears to have similar text compared to it's Wikipedia article.
  6. $100 Million Confusion and Jason Calacanis
    AOL's Jason Calacanis leaves a blog post about a possible $100 million income from advertising and how it was left on the table by Jimbo Wales. This has been confused with Jimmy's 100 million dollar "Dream a little..." post. Jimmy has posted on his blog about this issue to clear things up. Jason Calacanis (blog) comes to talk with us about his post.


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