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Posts on ‘October 11th, 2007’

Wikipedia Parent Moving to San Francisco

SF Chronicle: Wikimedia abandons Florida for San Francisco. The Wikimedia Foundation, the force behind the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia, is moving its headquarters to San Francisco this winter, further solidifying the Bay Area’s position as the epicenter of the Web 2.0 movement, which focuses on collaboration, community and user-generated content.

Contest for Employees Only: A Mistake

GateHouse Media, a big newspaper company, is holding an in-house contest for ideas that will generate $50 million in new earnings, Poynter reports. (The rules are here.) The winner can get up to $1 million. The contest is a great idea. But it should be open to all, not just GateHouse. The best ideas aren’t […]