Wikipedia's Downside

Here's an article from the NY Times on corporations editing articles in Wikipedia - or editing out information that they don't like. This seems to be the downside of wiki's. We really will need a wikiscanner - one already exists.

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New TableRank Search Engine

Here's a link to an article about a new tableRank (cf. Google's pageRank) search engine, coming out of the IT school at Penn State. It searches for tables on the internet. The world of searching is constantly changing, and perhaps we will be getting more and more refined tools!!

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Skype Problems

Yesterday Skype went down for unknown reasons, but the reasons might be found in the software that has been downloaded by absolutely all users since 2003. Here's a link to a NY Times article which will probably become unavailable within a week when it is no longer free. This seems to show the vulnerability of networks, especially hubs. They are resistant to everyday errors, but because they are arranged into hubs, shooting at hubs brings them down. Yet Skype is a peer-to-peer system, so maybe you wouldn't expect this.

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