Edit This Wired News Story. Reporter Ryan Singel files a 1,000-word story on the wiki phenomenon. In keeping with its spirit, we're throwing it on a wiki for collaborative editing by our readers. If you don't participate you can't complain about the results. By Wired News Staff. [Wired News: Top Stories]

 

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Podcasts of University Lectures?. theslashdot asks: "I'm working at a major university in the US, and have been charged with posting pod-casts of class lectures on the internet. The problem is whether or not posting the videos would allow students to skip class and just download the lecture, instead. I guess the problem is trying to strike the right balance between allowing good students to take advantage of this resource, but discourage bad students from staying at home all the time and watching all the lectures right before the exam. So what methods can be used to provide these pod-casts for the students who actually attended class? In terms of when the lecture should be posted, what would be a good time-frame? Immediately after the class? 24 hours? One week? One class behind schedule?" [Slashdot]

 

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Google Releases Tesseract as Open Source. An anonymous reader writes "Google recently released Tesseract as open source. Originally developed at the HP Labs from 1985-1995, it has been touted as one of the most accurate Optical Character Recognition (OCR) programs available. Having sat on the shelf gathering dust for so many years, Google cleaned up some of the more outdated portions of the code and released it for general consumption. You can download Tesseract over at Sourceforge. [Slashdot]

 

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Who (Really) Writes Wikipedia. Nico ? La ! writes "Aaron Swartz questions Jimbo Wales' (wikimedia's founder) belief and evangelized truth that only around 500 people are the most important contributors to wikipedia. Whereas the truth is that they probably are the people who do the most editing. From the post 'For example, the largest portion of the Anaconda article was written by a user who only made 2 edits to it (and only 100 on the entire site). By contrast, the largest number of edits were made by a user who appears to have contributed no text to the final article (the edits were all deleting things and moving things around).' " Which ultimately means that Wikipedia in some ways much more closely mimics a real encyclopedia, with many contributors writing the bulk of the content, but a small group massaging that text to insure standards compliance with the overall work. Interesting thing there and worth your time, although the super-computer thing doesn't make a lot of sense to me.  [Slashdot]

 

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TeleNav GPS Navigator 5.0 Intro'd (Business Wire).

TeleNav Launches Only Mobile-Phone-Based 3D GPS Navigation Service in the US

From: Business Wire
Type: Press Release

[CADwire.net - GIS industry news]

 

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Nokia Buys gate5 (Nokia).

Nokia Acquires gate5 to Add Robust Mapping and Navigation to Its Devices

From: Nokia
Type: Press Release

[CADwire.net - GIS industry news]

 

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Archicad 10 Supports Intel-Based Macs (Graphisoft).

Archicad 10 Runs Native on Intel-Based Apple Macs

From: Graphisoft
Type: Press Release

[CADwire.net - AEC CAD industry news]

 

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