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Bad news for UGC from "Private Eye"

User-generated content (UGC) is all the rage these days. It’s at the heart of many social networking web sites, and is increasingly becoming monetized as well. For example, there are web sites where you can upload a video from your … Continue reading

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Wikipedia in Academia?

Someone recently asked me what I thought, as a university lecturer, of students who quote from Wikipedia in their academic work. Surely I wouldn’t allow it, they suggested, as Wikipedia can be edited by anyone at anytime, and is therefore … Continue reading

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