wiki, bulletin

"When I took over," he wrote in a letter to a friend years later, "the President had no means of coordinating the intelligence from around the world." Roosevelt had created the Office of Strategic Services, under the command of General William J. Donovan, as America's wartime intelligence agency. But Donovan's OSS was never built to last. When the new Central Intelligence Agency arose from its ashes, Truman wanted it to serve him solely as a global news service, delivering daily bulletins.



Daily Highlights Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Spotlight

Ward Cunningham Source

Wiki-this, wiki-that; what is a wiki and when did the wiki-mania start? A wiki is a collaborative website that can be edited by anyone. Ward Cunningham, an Oregon native, developed the technology, naming it "wiki" after the word for quick in Hawaiian. Wiki was first released as WikiWikiWeb on this date in 1994. Fourteen years later, the internet community can do a lot with wikis, including sharing information in article form on Wikipedia and collaborating on Q&A with WikiAnswers.

Quote

"I think there's a compelling nature about talking. People like to talk. In creating wiki, I wanted to stroke that story-telling nature in all of us." — Ward Cunningham

Question of the Day

What is a 'wiki'?
A wiki is a web page that anybody can edit. Interactive web pages are nothing new. Bulletin boards and discussion forums have been common for a long time. They let you "edit" a web page in that you can post your own content. But a wiki goes beyond this. It lets you edit what other people have posted. This way, the content can evolve and improve over time. More

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Definition

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noun [C]
a short news programme on television or radio often about something that has just happened, or a short newspaper printed by an organization:
an hourly news bulletin
The company publishes a fortnightly bulletin for its staff.