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Great reads from around the web on August 15th

Amy Sample Ward

Like ‘how many times can I invite my Facebook friends to a fundraising event before it’s considered spam?’ Wikipedia Rolling Out Article Rating System – What Do You Think? – "Love it or hate it, you can't say Wikipedia is slow to innovate. ’ Well, now’s your chance!

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Stay Ahead of AI’s Magic

.orgSource

Wikipedia offers this one : Intelligence has been defined as the capacity for abstraction, logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving. Spam filtering, fraud detection, and recommendation systems are examples.

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Philanthropist 2.0: Crowdsourced Advised Funds

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Wikipedia is probably the best example of this, but I think it's possible to do much more. Ultimately, this is just a recommendation and I may completely ignore the results if they are stupid, so don't bother spamming. I also created a group on FriendFeed where people can submit links and discuss ideas.

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Strengthen Your Community with a Knowledge Sharing Network

NTEN

If users have to create an account, that in itself is a barrier, but it will allow you to delete accounts that spam. If you open up filesharing, you could expose your members to viruses, unhelpful or inappropriate content, or spam. Some are huge. Some are successful, but messy.

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NpTechTag Summary: NpTech Blog Buzz, NGOS at Demo 07, and Moulin

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The offline wikipedia, Moulin. A reminder from Democracy in Action about accidental email spamming. Unthinkingly points us to the last mile wikipedia , a 400,000+ article no-images version of the wikipedia that fits snugly into a CD and launched by Geekcorps. Marnie Webb offers more post conference call reflections.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Putting the U in YouTube, Some Cool Events, and Electronic Sheep Dreams

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Yikes, the first ever tag spam I've seen in the NpTech Tag Stream! Bridge To Integrated Marketing and Fundraising Conference Washington, DC 7/8/07-7/10/07 NP.IT: Midsummer Mixer at Google Headquarters in collaboration with NTEN Mountain View, CA 7/12/07 Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales, Wikipedia Founder San Francisco, CA 7/18/07.

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Live Blogging ONG Web 2.0 Conference in Romania sponsored by the Soros Foundation in Bucharest

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He told the story of the founding of wikipedia and the meaning of the Hawaiin word - quickly, quickly. He talked about the growth of wikipedia. Talked about the problem of wiki spam and how easy it is to administrator. Wiki: Collective brain of humanity. He also mentioned a Romanian wiki called MediaPedia.Ro.

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