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Jimmy Wales is selling his first Wikipedia edit as an NFT

The Verge

Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales is selling a non-fungible token (or NFT) based on his first edit of the free encyclopedia. Auction house Christie’s will hold a sale of the token from December 3rd to 15th, auctioning it alongside the Strawberry iMac Wales was using around Wikipedia’s launch. Jimmy Wales / Christie’s.

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Web 2.0 Part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

The Wikipedia entry on Web 2.0 applications every day. But there is a lot of hype regarding Web 2.0, and I want to talk about that hype, and talk about the possible pitfalls of jumping on the Web 2.0 What I’ll do in these posts is first explain a bit about one particular aspect of Web 2.0, Hallmarks of Web 2.0

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Are you ‘AI literate’? Schools and jobs are insisting on it—and now it’s EU law

Fast Company Tech

Many of these applications push the technology beyond its current capabilities, creating risks that aren’t always obvious to users. The EU goes further, requiring companies that produce AI products to train applicable staff to have the “skills, knowledge and understanding that allow providers, deployers and affected persons.

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Intuition vs. Data: How VolunteerMatch Uses Data to Change the Way It Makes Strategic Decisions

NTEN

By Zeph Harben, Director of Application Architecture, VolunteerMatch Every day we encounter hundreds of decision points. Wikipedia has a great primer on cognitive bias for amateur organizational psychologists. Avoid using marketing hype as a substitute for your own analysis. Should I wear jeans or khakis to work?

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The Math Is Starting to Add Up: The Promise of Mobile

NTEN

This resulted in us creating a “sneaker-net” approach to providing basic asynchronous ICT services to rural villages: a complete offline Wikipedia that fit on a CD-ROM, and severely restricted bandwidth throttling to allow community radios to access the Internet (via prepaid RBGAN) for $2-3 a day. .

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