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Compulsive hoarding is determined by Wikipedia as “a pattern of behavior that's indicated through the excessive purchase of and lack of ability or disinclination to discard large amounts of objects that will apparently become qualified as useless or without value.”Typically, hoarders would stack up (rather than discard) useless levels of books, furniture, newspapers, clothes, giveaways or trash… Furthermore to creating you stage your personal domestic tsunami, compulsive hoarding is regarded as an

If you visit the English Wikipedia right now (or within some hours) you’ll probably see a lot of black. No need to panic though, it’s a schedule protest against the SOPA and PIPA bills that are being promoted in the US. Here’s the description from their announcement: Today, the Wikipedia community announced its decision to black out the English-language Wikipedia for 24 hours, worldwide, beginning at 05:00 UTC on Wednesday, January 18 (you can read the statement from the Wikimedia

Wikipedia and several other sites including Reddit and Boing-Boing will go dark on Wednesday as a form of protest. What they’re protesting is the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Critics of the act say that it supports wholesale censorship with no recourse for even accidental offenders. At the root is the concept that the government can block any website that carries pirated materials. Obviously, this would be a big problem for eBay, YouTube, Facebook, pretty much any website that allows users to

If you are a heavy Internet user I am sure you land on Wikipedia quite often. I would also bet that the information you find there is most of the time complete and accurate. In this case, have you considered to help them back a little bit? Here’s why I respect Wikipedia’s efforts: they remained truthful to their original values (i.e., creating a website to democratize access to knowledge), despite becoming one of the most popular websites ever. The site receives over 400 million uniques per

The Google Doodle is - arguably - one of the biggest PR coups in the world. Not only does it include a prime placement on the single most popular landing page on Earth, but it also can drive a ton of traffic to sites that rank highly on the search term Google ties to it. Just how much traffic? How about 2M page views or more if your web page is the top result. Let's take a closer look at the data. Most Google Doodles are tied to holidays, historical events or iconic figures from history. Some are regional

There are several things on the Internet that help us a lot but that we take for granted. One of them is Wikipedia. Apart from being one of the best examples of why the Internet is changing the world (for the better!), Wikipedia is also one of the most useful websites around. I probably land on it at least once a day, and the information is always accurate. On top of that there are no ads around, and the entity that owns/manages it is a non-profit organization.