links for 2006-08-27

by Brian Reich | 27 Aug 2006, 2:00am

• African Languages Grow as a Presence on Wikipedia - New York Times
  How do you create an online encyclopedia when few native speakers have access to the Internet? What use is an encyclopedia when literacy rates among a language’s speakers can approach zero? And who should control the content of an encyclopedia in a loca
• The world of audioblogs is growing - The Boston Globe
  ndie bands dig them. Major labels shun them. Copyright issues vex them, while music fans flock to them: for free downloads, concert data, idiosyncratic musings, and impassioned chatter about acts and tracks. What are they? Audioblogs.
• A “sanctuary” no more, PBS Kids site to resume ads
  PBS will resume selling advertisements on its popular PBS Kids Web site, angering parents, children’s advocates and consumer watchdog groups concerned that the plan would pollute one of the last commercial-free bastions for kids on the Internet.

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