Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 28, 2012

The Wikipedia entry on this topic is extensive, and the most common usage in the marketplace is for the socially beneficial flavor of “social enterprise,” not the Salesforce one-year-old marketing campaign.

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The Verge

MARCH 5, 2022

On Friday, it passed a new law banning “fake news,” and blocked access to Facebook completely. The country has also restricted access to Twitter and threatened to block Wikipedia over “false messages” about the war in Ukraine.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2020

People become banking analysts and dig through SEC forms for one or two lines of information, or go to law school or become legal analysts and do the same thing… [They’re] just bogged down by these walls of text, by this like avalanche of information that is impossible to make sense of.”. Photo via Hebbia.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2012

You might recall a day earlier this year when you were greeted with an odd blackout message instead of the Wikipedia entry for poutine. Many became aware of the movement against the Stop Online Piracy Act after the January 18 service blackouts started by Wikipedia and Reddit (with support from Craigslist and Google ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2005

When students do a research paper without looking at wikipedia, the student research paper is far superior. But what if they went to wikipedia and made a critical comparison? And what if they put their paper into wikipedia. What if student goes to wikipedia and posts an article about Jamaica and helps tourism."

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Meanwhile, the condor’s habitat was improved due to work done by government agencies and environmental groups to protect ranging lands and enact laws against lead bullets. In 1991, condors began to be released back into the wild. A puppet feeds a condor chick. It’s hard to believe that something that big and cumbersome could actually fly.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

She holds a master’s degree in Political Sciences, Public Law and Contemporary History from University of Konstanz, Germany. Ryan Fan Before Ryan Fan, a high school senior, came to Benetech for his school’s career day, he consulted Wikipedia to understand this concept called “social entrepreneurship.”

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TechNode

MAY 10, 2024

Im not your mother-in-law, also not your mum, Qu commented in one of a series of short videos posted on Douyin, Chinas TikTok sibling. The surfacing of a series of videos made by Qu has led to the public casting doubt on the companys corporate values.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 18, 2020

There are sometimes issues in the true crime podcasting world with shows not citing their sources, and some podcasts don’t do any research besides reading off Wikipedia,” he told BuzzFeed News. But Crime Junkie is probably the most high-profile example of this.”. Many shows look to real life for podcast material.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 20, 2006

This use of the copyright law to encourage copying is refered to in FOSS circles as Copyleft. But the GPL very much reflects US copyright law. Wikipedia has published a list of software licenses that can give you some sense of how the definition of FOSS has fragmented. 3) many open-source projects are international in effort.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

It was founded in 2001 by Harvard law professor and activist Lawrence Lessig. Creative Commons basically provides a free and standardized legal infrastructure that joins up the free flow of online information with traditional copyright laws that were devised in an earlier age. We are in pretty good company.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations. However if you, as a well-meaning representative of an organization, try to inject your side into the debate, your edits might be summarily deleted and you may be accused of violating Wikipedia rules in quite harsh terms.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations. However if you, as a well-meaning representative of an organization, try to inject your side into the debate, your edits might be summarily deleted and you may be accused of violating Wikipedia rules in quite harsh terms.

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The Verge

JUNE 17, 2020

Wikipedia editors are questioning what it means to be a platform committed to “neutrality.” Lawmakers in New York proposed a new law that would prohibit police from using geofence warrants as protests continue to grow. Private Facebook groups are using the name “Justice for George Floyd” to hide racist behavior.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

You may be wondering whether copyright laws and remix culture are at odds with one another. Wikipedia , the online open-community encyclopedia, is the most well known. It is an idea closely tied with the term user-generated content and creative commons licensing. A nonprofit organized named Creative Commons.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

According to Wikipedia, "Monopoly is a multiplayer economics-themed board game. 2) There's the Monopoly game by Hasbro. In the game, players roll two dice to move around the game board, buying and trading properties and developing them with houses and hotels. Jane Goodall; and Queen Elizabeth II. (5)

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

Today, the Marrakesh Treaty has been ratified by more than thirty countries, and went into international effect and law as of last year. Our goal in working with the Internet Archive on the Open Library would be to experiment with a Wikipedia-style “please donate if you can” model to offer a global solution for free to everybody.

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Recode by Vox

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Researchers fed another part of the model a bunch of Wikipedia articles to teach it how sentences work, and what words often appear next to each other in different contexts. Last year, neuroscientists, lawyers, and lawmakers began passing legislation to explicitly include neural data in state privacy laws.

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The Verge

MAY 21, 2021

A quarter of the deep links in The New York Times’ articles are now rotten, leading to completely inaccessible pages, according to a team of researchers from Harvard Law School, who worked with the Times ’ digital team. Illustration by William Joel / The Verge. What a nightmare! There has been some work done in trying to preserve links.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Tobias Schonwetter, discusses the analogy between copyright law and culture in many regions of the world and an interview with Anna Badimo, chairperson of LinuxChix Africa. The Icommons.org has some excellent blog posts and resources about open content that may be of interest to nonprofits.

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The Verge

JUNE 11, 2020

The Wikipedia page entry for astroturfing notes that Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar begins with Cassius writing fake letters from “the public” to convince Brutus to assassinate the title character, and the idea has inspired the business community ever since.

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2020

In the delightfully dry phrasing of Wikipedia authors, “ 2: Electric Boogaloo became a verbal template appended to a topic as a signal of pejorative parody.”). But they have vastly different reasons for why they think the law must change. The name derives from the camp classic breakdancing movie Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo.

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