Microsoft hires a blogger to edit Wikipedia

Aside from Wikipedia adding nofollow on their external links after the SEO World Championship was announced, they are now giving a closer check on all Microsoft related articles in their site. Here is from Brian Bergstein of the Associated Press:

Microsoft Corp. landed in the Wikipedia doghouse Tuesday after it offered to pay a blogger to change technical articles on the community-produced Web encyclopedia site.

(MSNBC is a joint Microsoft - NBC Universal venture.)

While Wikipedia is known as the encyclopedia that anyone can tweak, founder Jimmy Wales and his cadre of volunteer editors, writers and moderators have blocked public-relations firms, campaign workers and anyone else perceived as having a conflict of interest from posting fluff or slanting entries. So paying for Wikipedia copy is considered a definite no-no.

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Night at the Museum Movie Review

ABOUT THE MOVIE
Larry Daley (Ben Stiller) accepts what appears to be a menial job as a graveyard-shift security guard at a museum of natural history. During Larry’s watch, extraordinary things begin to occur: Mayans, Roman gladiators, and cowboys emerge from their diorama to wage epic battles; in his quest for fire, a caveman burns down his own display; Attila the Hun pillages his neighboring exhibits, and a T-Rex reminds everyone why he’s history’s fiercest predator. Amid the chaos, the only person Larry can turn to for advice is a wax figure of President Teddy Roosevelt (Robin Williams).

MY MOVIE REVIEW
This is a good family movie but it would have been better if this was shown last Christmas. This movie reminds me of The Indian in the Cupboard where still figures come to life, only this time, its caused by a magical golden plate from an Egyptian mummy. Continue reading »

Wikipedia Nofollow Implemented. Let’s Nofollow Wikipedia too!

I have read so many blogs about this already so I will just make this post short. Get the plugin here if you want to add nofollow on all your site’s external links to Wikipedia by Ken Yasumoto - Nicolson

The only people concerned about Wikipedia imposing the nofollow rule on external sites are people adding links on Wikipedia for SEO reasons. Like me! hehehehe

So far Answers.com has not yet imposed their copy of Wikipedia. So does other sites that copy Wikipedia. Will they follow the trend? Continue reading »