Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2012

Sites includes Wikipedia , Reddit , BoingBoing , and Global Voices are “going dark” and will black out the Global Voices Advocacy site for 12 hours on January 18 beginning at 8 am. In response, many web sites are going on strike. Source: Uploaded by user via Beth on Pinterest.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 21, 2013

The problem with curating producers in this fashion is the trade-off with traction that this brings in. A user’s karma on Hacker News or Reddit is a function of the community’s assessment of her ability to produce consistently and with high quality. The propensity for certain men to vandalize dating site experiences is well understood.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2021

Every startup is trying to fix something but Terraformation is tackling the only problem that must matter to all of us: Climate change. The problem is we just don’t have enough trees with roots in the ground to offset our emissions. contains some 2.27BN acres of total land area, per Wikipedia ). That night, a forest flew.

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The Verge

JULY 30, 2020

The entirety of English Wikipedia constitutes just 0.6 It’s hard to estimate the total size, but we know that the entirety of the English Wikipedia, spanning some 6 million articles, makes up only 0.6 Type a question and GPT-3 directs you to the relevant Wikipedia URL for the answer. percent of GPT-3’s training data.

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The Verge

MAY 21, 2021

They found that this problem affected over half of the articles containing links in the NYT ’s catalog going back to 1996, illustrating the problem of link rot and how difficult it is for context to survive on the web. There would be countless Reddit threads and tweet replies that would no longer make sense to future readers.

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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.”). The movement has also found to be active on Twitter, Discord, and Reddit, among other social sites.) Why are there so many Boogaloo groups on Facebook and elsewhere? Industry.

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