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The debate over whether Wikipedia is as a reliable source of information as Encyclopaedia Britannica has been going on since Jimmy Wales co-founded Wikipedia back in 2001 along with Larry Sanger.
These pages correct some of the errors people have found in Encyclopedia Britannica, illustrating that EB isn’t always the definitive and authoritative source that some [...]

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This is an excellent list of tools for online collaboration from the Mashable Social Networking News.

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Miro is a free, open-source internet TV platform developed by the Participatory Culture Foundation and designed to make mass media more open and accessible. It was previously called Democracy Player and aims to make online video “as easy as watching TV”.
Miro combines a media player and library, content guide, video search engine, as well [...]

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One of the nifty things Google Earth lets you do is to fly along a route between 2 points. So, for example, if you wanted to travel to Glasgow from Edinburgh, you can follow your route from the air and see all the features and places along the way.
How to:
1. Download Google Earth and [...]

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Amongst the many barriers to access to Second Life, the two main ones have always been the need to download the SL client onto your machine and the need for a hefty video/graphics card.
In the last week there has been much interest in the news that a 15 year-old girl, Katharine Berry, has [...]

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