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NEWS ABOUT: Wired

Wired stories: 8 news summaries

Wired Editor Plagiarizes Wikipedia in
New Book

Ironically, Anderson's tome is on free content

Jun 24, 09 10:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Virginia Quarterly Review has found almost a dozen plagiarized passages in Chris Anderson’s upcoming book Free, a book that, ironically, is all about free content. Most of the passages were cribbed verbatim from Wikipedia, while another was from a professor’s personal website, and yet another from another... More »

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Wikipedia • plagiarism • Wired • Chris Anderson • free news • Virginia Quarterly Review

(Newser) - Wired has been keeping track of the most ridiculous acronyms the military-industrial complex comes up with. Here’s the latest list of the "Most Awesomely Bad Military Acronyms" (MAMAs, of course):
  • Affordable Accurate Robot Guidance (AARG)
  • Integrated Precision Ordnance Delivery System (IPODS)
  • Multi-Sensor Aerospace-Ground Joint ISR Interoperability Coalition
... More »

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technology • military • list • Military-Industrial Complex • Wired

 Single App Nets $600K in Month 

The gold rush continues in Apple's App Store

Feb 13, 09 10:42 AM CST
(Newser) - With more than 20,000 iPhone apps available, it seems inevitable that most would make peanuts. But Ethan Nicholas’ tank artillery game, iShoot, raked in $600,000 in one month——$37,000 on its best day—proving the gold rush is on in the App Store, Wired reports. The... More »

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iPhone • computer programming • Apple • iPhone applications • video games • Wired • App Store

ANALYSIS

 Mission Accomplished on Mars

Time is up, but Phoenix keeps digging

Aug 29, 08 5:32 PM CDT
(Newser) - Time's almost up for NASA's Mars Phoenix Lander: With its 90-day mission complete, the $480 million project will continue testing soil samples until the punishing winter puts it out of commission. Wired recaps Phoenix triumphs with an interactive timeline, from its flawless landing at Mars' north pole to its... More »

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NASA • space exploration • Mars • Phoenix Mars Lander • robot • Wired

(Newser) - In three short years, Mario Armando Lavandeira—you may know him better as Perez Hilton—has transformed himself from shy recluse to celebrity gossip maven, with his website generating millions in revenue and page views. With TV specials, his own fashion line, a tell-all book due next year, and, soon,... More »

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fashion • blogging • celebrity • gossip • Warner Music • Perez Hilton • Wired

OPINION

 Must Globetrotting
 Aussies Be Grounded?

Wired blogger responds to Oz travel-bashing

Aug 20, 08 2:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - It's even harder being green if you're Australian, since it takes a long-haul flight to get practically anywhere, Adele Horin observes in the Sydney Morning Herald. Aussies consider globetrotting to be part of their birthright, but Horin thinks it's time her country-mates recognize airplanes for what they are: "toxic... More »

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Australia • pollution • air travel • opinion • greenhouse-gas emissions • Wired

ANALYSIS

 Is Web's 'Long Tail'
 Really a Tall Tale? 

Harvard prof questions theory that Internet fuels boom for niche commerce

Jul 14, 08 4:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - The "Long Tail" theory of the internet—that the Web's boundless democracy is enabling a boom in niche culture and commerce—is coming under fire just as its author releases the paperback version, Farhad Manjoo writes on Slate. After reviewing data that should back Chris Anderson's theory, a Harvard... More »

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Web 2.0 • culture • Wired • Chris Anderson • Anita Elberse • long tail • niche • esoteric

OPINION

 Five Problems With 
 Environmental Reporting 

Columbia Journalism Review assesses field's common trouble spots

Jun 29, 08 5:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - If you’re flummoxed by ever-shifting information on climate change and the environment, just think what the folks who report it must be going through. Deadline pressures and conflicting scientific papers have reporters struggling to provide editors with sellable stories, the Columbia Journalism Review reports, and the results don’t... More »

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environment • media criticism • Columbia University • global warming • journalism • reporter • Wired

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