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Thoughts on 10 Years of Wikipedia, Comparing WikiLeaks to 'The Dark Knight'

by Thomas Houston on January 13, 2011 at 07:40 PM

Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web.

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Good Manners in the Age of WikiLeaks
In one of the diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks, Putin and Medvedev are compared to Batman and Robin. It's a useful analogy: isn't Julian Assange, WikiLeaks's organiser, a real-life counterpart to the Joker in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight?

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  • The Atlantic rounded up a cast of thinkers, including Bruce Sterling, Jonathan Lethem and Mary H.K. Choi, to comment on Wikipedia's 10th anniversary. [From: The Atlantic]
  • PBS's free new iOS app brings full length episodes of 'FRONTLINE,' 'NOVA,' 'PBS Newhour' and more to your iPhone. [From: iTunes, via Engadget]

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