Are We Questioning the Academic Validity of Wikipedia?

Like many of my fellow students, when I’m working on an assignment that requires some research, Wikipedia is often the first place I’ll go for an overview of a topic. More often than not, I do so under the pretense of a disclaimer that Wikipedia can not be cited as a source. As a result, Wikipedia is often not seen as an acceptable academic source.
In spite of this, we still keep coming back to Wikipedia for an overview of the topic. I and …

Check out the latest pictures and tweets from Pittsburgh G20 in realtime.

There seems to be quite a lot of social media-powered promotion for the upcoming G20 Summit here in Pittsburgh (Sep 24-25). Many mini projects have been launched. I decided to briefly present each one in this blog post.

G20 Buzz

Smart, simple and real-time. G20 Buzz mashes up G-20 related twitter conversations, youtube videos, flickr phots and google news. It is powered by Mullen and Full Stop. To take part in the conversation use these twitter hashtags: #g20, #pghg20, #g20summit,