Hollywood Burns

Hollywood will be destroyed and no one will notice. Collaborative storytelling and filmmaking will do to Hollywood what Wikipedia did to Encyclopedia Britannica.

– From Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales’s keynote address at the Internet Society’s INET convention in Geneva

News Byte

To Twitter, on Your Sixth Birthday

It’s Twitter’s sixth birthday today, counting from when Jack Dorsey sent the first tweet on March 21, 2006. According to Wikipedia, here are some child development markers we can expect from a 6-year-old: “Movements are more precise and deliberate, though some clumsiness persists”; “span of attention increases; can concentrate effort but not always consistently”; “loves telling jokes and riddles; often, the humor is far from subtle.” Sounds about right!

Encyclopaedia Multimedia

Some people will feel sad about it and nostalgic about it. But we have a better tool now. The Web site is continuously updated, it’s much more expansive and it has multimedia.

Jorge Cauz, the president of Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc., which has stopped printing physical books after 244 years, and will stop selling them when current inventory runs out

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End of Era for Britannica

In 1768, a Scottish engraver named Andrew Bell and a printer named Colin Macfarquhar set ink to paper to create three cross-referenced volumes known as Encyclopaedia Britannica.

An Epic(Mix) Day on the Slopes in Colorado

A first-time skiing lesson yields an interesting digital record of the day’s events.
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Dude, Where’s My Facebook IPO Filing? (Ashton’s on Hold!)

Mr. Kutcher really wants to know what’s what this fine IPO-awaiting morning.
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Orange to Bring Free Wikipedia Access to Cell Users in Africa and Middle East

Over the course of 2012, the carrier will bring the service to 20 countries in the region it covers.
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Viral Graphic: A World Without Wikipedia

Ooh, more pretty pictures.
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Two Last SOPA/PIPA Videos — One Silly and One Serious (Both Terrific)

These are certainly worth a watch.
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Sound Bites From the SOPA Strike

A roundup of some of the interesting comments made about SOPA and PIPA during today’s Web-wide protest against the bills.
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App Makers Craft Code for Protesting SOPA

The Day the Web Went Dark

Quora Crams Full Web Site Into New iPhone App