Author Archive | Joel Ausanka

The Net Killer A.K.A. SOPA

Boycott SOPA

Recently, a petition to get Marvel Comics to stop supporting SOPA, or the Stop Online Piracy Act, appeared online. While the SOPA name sounds reasonable enough, because of course creators’ intellectual property rights deserve protection, the onerous nature of the actual legislation along with the Protect IP Act (PIPA) is nothing short of super-villainous. An […]

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The Waning World Of Wikipedia

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The world’s most popular website for, what a professor of mine once called “largely unreliable,” online reference material is facing a dilemma: fewer people are interested in contributing to it and editing it. Wikipedia is considered largely reliable by the online community and tends to have a lot of self-monitoring. However, those numbers have been […]

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