Of all the myriad of terms that the tech industry throws around at the moment, none is as often subverted for marketing spin as “big data”. So much so that few people can actually agree on what big data…
The other day I posted about Wikipedia and the fact that it has realised that a degree of control over authorship is necessary to ensure things don’t spiral out of control. Hot on the heels of that post I…
Wikipedia has always been know as “the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit”. Contrast this with this editorial recently published in The Guardian by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. In the editorial Jimmy modified his definition somewhat to now read;…