Google is changing its search algorithm Tuesday to favor sites that look good on smartphones [sites that are ‘mobile-ready’].
Is this a good idea? Yay or nay.
Websites Prep for Google’s ‘Mobilegeddon’ – Digits – WSJ.
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The Pulitzer Prize Winners for 2015
Ladies and gentlemen, here are the 2015 Pulitzer Prizes:
Journalism
 Public Service: The Post and Courier, Charleston, SC
Breaking News Reporting:Â The Seattle Times Staff
Investigative Reporting:Â Eric Lipton of The New York Times;Â Â The Wall Street Journal Staff
Explanatory Reporting:Â Zachary R. Mider of Bloomberg News
Local Reporting:Â Rob Kuznia, Rebecca Kimitch and Frank Suraci of the Daily Breeze, Torrance, CA
National Reporting:Â Carol D. Leonnig of The Washington Post
International Reporting:Â The New York Times Staff
Feature Writing:Â Diana Marcum of the Los Angeles Times
Commentary:Â Lisa Falkenberg of the Houston Chronicle
Criticism:Â Mary McNamara of the Los Angeles Times
Editorial Writing:Â Kathleen Kingsbury of The Boston Globe
Editorial Cartooning:Â Adam Zyglis of The Buffalo News
Breaking News Photography:Â St. Louis Post-Dispatch Photography Staff
Feature Photography:Â Daniel Berehulak, freelance photographer, The New York Times
 Letters, Drama, and Music
Fiction:Â All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (Scribner)
Drama:Â Between Riverside and Crazy by Stephen Adly Guirgis
History:Â Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People by Elizabeth A. Fenn (Hill and Wang)
Biography or Autobiography:Â The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe by David I. Kertzer (Random House)
Poetry:Â Digest by Gregory Pardlo (Four Way Books)
General Nonfiction:Â The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert (Henry Holt)
Music:Â Anthracite Fields by Julia Wolfe (Red Poppy Music/G. Schirmer, Inc.)
Source:Â http://www.pulitzer.org/awards/2015
The Library of Congress releases 50 audio recordings (and counting!) online for the first time
The New York Times reports that the Library of Congress has begun posting recordings from its Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature in honor of National Poetry Month.
50 of the collection’s nearly 2,000 audio recordings are now available online, and another will be added each month as the program continues. This initial sample includes a 1971 lecture by Kurt Vonnegut; Robert Frost’s interview with Randall Jarrell; readings byElizabeth Bishop, Galway Kinnell, Rita Dove, William Meredith, Gwendolyn Brooks, Paul Muldoon, and many others; Ray Bradbury’s excellent lecture, “Beyond 1984: What To Do When The Doom Doesn’t Arriveâ€; audio from the Academy of American Poets 35th anniversary program in 1969, and more. Start listening here.Â
The story behind the longest-running hoax in Wikipedia history
Jar’Edo Wens is an Australian aboriginal deity, the god of “physical might†and “earthly knowledge.†He’s been name-dropped in books. Carved into rocks.
And, as of March,conclusively debunked.
There is no such figure, it turns out, in aboriginal mythology; instead, Jar’Edo Wens was a blatant prank, a bald invention, dropped into Wikipedia nine years ago by some unknown and anonymous Australian. By the time editors found Jar’Edo Wens, he had leaked off Wikipedia and onto the wider Internet.
He had also broken every other Wikipedia hoaxing record. At nine years, nine months and three long days, Jar’Edo Wens is the longest-lived hoax found on the free encyclopedia yet.Â
The story behind Jar’Edo Wens, the longest-running hoax in Wikipedia history – The Washington Post.
Where does Wikipedia’s information come from?
Wikipedia helps us make sense of the world. In 277 languages from Ukrainian to Urdu, its 36 million articles deepen our understanding of the people, places and ideas that matter to us. While it can feel like a static resource, Wikipedia’s articles are born and nurtured through a thoroughly human process. Behind the scenes, thousands of Wikipedians craft policy that guides decisions about whether an article reflects a neutral point of view, a source should be considered reliable, or a subject is notable enough to warrant an article.
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Geographic differences underlie many differences in editor perspectives. Each editor lives in a particular place in the world, reads specific languages, and represents some national culture. These geographic differences translate to differences between language Wikipedias…
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Our research studies where information in Wikipedia comes from, a characteristic we call geoprovenance. We focus on the four million Wikipedia articles about places that, along with information such as TripAdvisor reviews and geotagged flickr images, constitutes the rising class of information renowned geographer Michael Goodchild calls volunteered geographic information (VGI)