Languages on Newsvine

Mon Jun 12, 2006 9:29 PM EDT

Newsvine's software has no problem supporting articles and comments in languages other than English. But can we say the same for its community? Do we want to?

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technology, english, internet, newsvine, language, meta

Web 2.0 - The second generation of the Internet has arrived. It's worse than you think.

Seeded on Thu Jun 1, 2006 11:18 AM EDT (Campaign Standard)

In the Web 2.0 world, the nightmare is not the scarcity, but the over-abundance of authors. Since everyone will use digital media to express themselves, the only decisive act will be to not mark the paper.

media, technology, web-2-0, internet

Zimbabwe introduces $100,000 note

Seeded on Wed May 31, 2006 6:07 AM EDT (BBC News)

The note will be worth about $1 at the official exchange rate, but only $0.30 on the informal market. The 50,000 Zimbabwe dollar bill, introduced only four months ago, is not enough to buy a loaf of bread. Hey, I'm a millionaire in Zimbabwe.

zimbabwe, africa, economics, inflation, world-news

Your online poker rights are under attack

Seeded on Tue May 30, 2006 2:32 AM EDT (pokermag.com)

Michael Bolcerek, the president of the Poker Players Alliance, has been personally lobbying in Washington, DC, regarding the House Judiciary Committee's consideration of HR 4777, better known as the Internet Gaming Prohibition Act.

technology, internet, poker

What Ph.D. students really have to fear

Seeded on Mon May 29, 2006 11:42 PM EDT (Slate)

A look into the glamorous life of career academicians. Students can take comfort in the idea that even if they can't get a great first job, say at a Top 50 research institution, they can do solid work wherever they land and then move up the prestige ladder.

education, us-news

The real value of paying for ideas with fake money

Seeded on Mon May 29, 2006 4:35 AM EDT (CNET)

From the CNET blog, a review of Inkling Markets. Inkling is a startup out of Y Combinator that makes online prediction markets, where you can buy stock in anything from World Cup teams to Apple rumors for glory and (so far, only imaginary) profit.

technology, web-2-0, markets, startup, inkling

Venezuela's $5m Opec extravaganza

Seeded on Mon May 29, 2006 4:10 AM EDT (FT.com)

Venezuela is hosting a meeting for OPEC ministers this week. Its populist president Hugo Chavez has spared no expense, and the event will cost an estimated $5 million US.

oil, venezuela, world-news, opec

Talking with ghosts

Seeded on Sun May 28, 2006 9:41 PM EDT (perpetualrefugee.blogspot.com)

A great piece from a Lebanese Arab about meeting Israeli Arabs. Link picked up from Michael J Totten's blog.

israel, middle-east, arab

For uranium cleanup ... bacteria?

Seeded on Sun May 28, 2006 9:24 PM EDT (Stanford Knowledgebase)

Researchers at Stanford and Oak Ridge National Laboratory are using bacteria to reduce uranium to safe levels at sites such as this one in Oak Ridge, Tenn., where four unlined settling pits were built in 1951.

stanford, cleanup, radiation, environment, science

A Pope From Germany Prays at Auschwitz

Seeded on Sun May 28, 2006 5:15 PM EDT (The New York Times)

Pope Benedict XVI prayed today at the cells and crematoriums of the death camps here, on a visit he called "particularly difficult and troubling for a Christian, for a pope from Germany."

germany, religion, pope, benedict, catholicism, auschwitz