roman is a contributor to wikipedia. and that's what's special about the website. it depends on volunteers to add or edit material. >> i first started out by editing a few articles randomly, making a few grammatical adjustments maybe a spelling change here or there. >> the word wikipedia is a blend of two other words. a "wiki" is a website where anyone can add and edit content, and "pedia" comes from "encyclopedia." that's why wikipedia calls itself "the free encyclopedia anyone can edit. >> you've heard of h.g. wells, the great science fiction author. he actually had an idea, back in the '30s, called the world brain, which was a worldwide encyclopedia organization whose whole purpose was to collect and classify and sort the information of the world, and wikipedia is sort of a realization of that on a volunteer, internet-distributed basis. >> richard knipel leads the new york chapter of wikipedia editors. worldwide, there are nearly 100,000 editors who contribute to the site, and that brings up the controversy around wik

i'm going to ask him about putting that on the wikipedia page, though.in terms of living your fantasy, from the bottom of my heart, my fantasy right now is living in a world where the president of our united states is the first african-american to hold that position, the mayor of san francisco is the first asian american to hold that position and i feel slowly, not quickly enough, but we are moving towards a society where your role in government, your role in society, your role in a cultural organization is not judged by the color of your skin, to paraphrase [applause] now, as mayor lee -- i am going to talk a little bit about sf cal, which stands for san francisco cultural arts. carnaval, this has developed into the largest multi-cultural event in california. it includes the mission neighborhood center, which i served on the board for a couple of years, and now it is headed by the san francisco cultural arts tradition. i believe this is a very important situation, because sf cat is dedicated exclusively to this event, much like the sf jazz festival has

know, if you want to buy a product use amazon or ebay, other kinds of information go to facebook or wikipedia. and in that greater search market google's only one of numerous choices. is it a conflict for bag to toll position its own -- for google to position its own services at the top of its search rankings? >> guest: well, first, you know, if google really kid that, than instead of using facebook i'd be using the failed product or instead of wikipedia, i'd be using knoll. i don't think there's evidence that actually occurs. but i think we should pause for a second. although it may sound at least from mr. yes cland's -- cleland's perspective that that might be unfair, we want firms -- from a consumer's perspective, we want the strongest rivals to be able to come up with the best products and to hamper google's opportunity to come up with better products to say that they couldn't go and have some type of preference, i think, might inhibit their ability to, you know, sort of develop new and better products. >> host: mr. balto, our last guest, scott cleland, says that google does not play by t

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she used some of her favorite apps like wikipedia, the dictionary, movies and film previews and everything is fine. she also drives to work and she often parks on the street, but so while she is in her car she finds that reception is also very good. she doesn't have any problems with reception in chinatown around her work site which is in chinatown, so she said she gets much better reception here in chinatown than she does from her home in a different county. i have a second colleague quincy lee and she also works near the chinese hospital area and she has been using her cell phone in the area for 10 years and gets very good reception inside the building and on the street. and there is knowledge of people who have come here to oppose the installation. can you stand? [bell ringing] >> good afternoon, president olague, vice president miguel, and fellow commissioners. my name is winnie and i am a manager for the elderly one-stop and we support at&t deploying technology in chinatown. wireless is the future of communications, mobile payments, entertainment, and chinatown must not be left behind

. >> one passage seems to be lifted almost entirely from wikipedia in the book. i think based on that, i would caution anyone to assume that if you can't get those things right that you suddenly get the broader analysis right. that analysis is wrong. >> now, the wikipedia charge comes from a description of fannie mae, not in flowery language and suskind was asked to respond to those charges this morning on the "today" show. >> you've got to use a combination of a certain number of words. they're not the same in the two sentences. the white house should be doing something better on wicky searches on a 500 page book. the white house should respond to whether the president is getting gamed by his advisers or not. >> ann curry asked him to defend his quote from anita dunn which he says was taken out of context. here's what he said. >> i let "the washington post" listen to the tape. there it is clear as a bell. >> let me get to that what's on tape. i understand what's on tape is the fact that she said "if it weren't for the president, this place would be in court for

time to update that wikipedia page. >>> venus williams has a rare auto immune disease that forced her to pull out of the u.s. open. there's no timetable for her return to tennis. >>> finally, back to baseball. the brewers ryan braun hit a shot deep to center. took a wild bounce off the wall, and that's when braun kicked it into high gear. a chance for an inside the park home run. got the green light to come home. rounded third. oh, no. he either stumbled about 30 feet too early. when he tried to get up, it was too late. caught in a rundown. all he could do is smile and think about what could have been. that's your early look at sports on "early today." i'm fred roggin. >> "early today" sports is brought to you by just for men hair color. live forward. >>> justin bieber gets teens' hearts racing, and it turns out he may have been doing some racing of his own. your early morning entertainment headlines are straight ahead. >>> plus, with a little help from his friends, this high school senior hopes to be just fine. you're watching "early today." >>> welcome back on this thursday. the inc

so with all due respect to the future of a world of wikipedia, we will continue to press until we get legislation that requires any entity that wants to make independent expenditures to disclose who's putting up the money. that is just a cardinal rule. it's the basic rule when you start looking at the role of the money in politics. citizens have a right to know, and this extremely conservative on campaign finance issues, supreme court, recognize without having any problem at all. >> just another point. i'm on the board of something called global organization parliamentarian's against corruption, a canadian organization but it's now a number of countries that have chapters. it's picking up a lot of steam. people around the world realize this is an issue but to look to the united states as a model. you think we have problems, you should look at problems in other countries. >> that was a point that landon was making earlier. there's another question, allow him to close with some observations. and on that point, american world leaders. >> it is hard to talk about being a world leader if y

arrest somebody because the urban dictionary said that what they said was bad isn't just like using wikipedia for your college dissertation or like green eggs and ham for cocaine so you can we really rely on the urban dictionary couldn't like people just make up words now to throw police off the trail no you know i mean i think we should all go to urban dictionary and make up ridiculous words and just start using them and make up crimes and yes the whole you leave it right i'm really enjoying this idea can we get on let's do it alone i would rather after we do my bombing of the i thought ok you know this guy's just. ok.d. it let me tell you about chris john he is not libyan he's actually an american student he's twenty one years old from from l.a. and so he showed up at all these pictures with the libyan rebels and so what happened is that he actually made his way he had a one way ticket home from cairo made his way to tripoli to help the rebels and he told the the national that he came to live because it's the end of my summer vacation so i thought it would be cool to join the rebels this is

tweet today trying to proclaim their vast expertise on where a lockie because they read something on wikipedia you know i would be a millionaire but i maybe would have twenty thirty bucks you know the fact is that most of the people yapping about anwar locky had never heard of him or if they did they probably knew something that was factually incorrect you know the reality is that most probable sources say that this was a guy whose primary threat to the united states was his ability to go on youtube and preach his message of hatred and let's also remember and no one wants to talk about this on moral locky after nine eleven there was a mainstay on the news hour with jim lehrer he was in the washington post as a voice of moderation condemning nine eleven but also condemning u.s. policy so it's quite likely that anwar lucky himself was radicalized as a result of what was perceived widely in the muslim world to be a war against islam we don't spend a lot of time studying or talking about blowback in this country but we should because you could make a reasonable case that he was a product of u.s. p

if you want a product use amazon or ebay or if there's other information go to facebook or wikipedia. google is one of numerous choices. >> host: is it a conflict to position information sources like finance or google maps at the top of the search rankings? >> guest: well, first, if google did that, instead of facebook, i would use orkut, google's failed project or instead of wikipedia, i'd use knol. there's no evidence that occurs. we have to pause for a second although it sundays like from mr. cleland's per specttive that's not fair, but we want the strongest rivals to the best products and hamper google's opportunity to come up with better products to say that they couldn't go and have some type of preference i think might inhibit their ability to develop new and better products. >> host: last guest said that google does not play by the rules. do you agree with that? >> guest: i couldn't disagree more. you know, i think just dealing with the point about deception, look, clear standards on deception. the ftc has an active internet policeman, and if google did something wrong long ag

nancy grace, chaz bono, rob kardashian, ron artest, and by the way these are all people according to wikipediathey are real. anyway, there are some good people there. but you have been on "the apprentice." are you looking forward to watching this? >> i am looking forward to nancy grace going around. i am done with reality shows. >> are you really? >> yes. >> not part of your reality. is there anybody you are rooting for organs? >> i have never watched the show ever. there was a controversy with chaz bono though -- gite pregnant man felt he got robbed. >> and we were talking about this before the program. the pregnant man still has a vagina. technically he is not a man. he is a m would with a beard. >> she a transgender man. >> he is not even transgender. >> i think he was taking the glory away from chaz, and that's unfair. why does he think that he is replacing chaz? that's bigoted i think to assume -- i don't know that that there has to be one transgender person. i find that disgusting. >> they will go with the transgender guy or ron artest. >> baker, this is your favorite show. >> are you pl

. >> one passage seems to be lifted almost tiernly from wikiped wikipedia. >> reporter: when the whitelowed up with, officials indicated jay darny was referring to a passage about the federal mortgage firm fannie mae as first reported by politico. quote, in 1968, it officially became a publicly held corporation to remove its debt and related activities from the federal balance sheet. the wikipedia passage says, in 1968 it converted to a publicly held corporation to remove its dist and debt from the federal budget. we contacted the publisher for response. a spokeswoman there says suskind spent more than 700 hours with more than 200 individuals in writing the book. the spokeswoman calls it exhaustively resources and harpercollins is proud to be publishing it. >> by the way, the white house cooperated with the author as he was writing this book, giving them access to both the president and his inner circle. and with the slumping economy here, james carville says president obama needs to finally make a change, but will he? mr. carville will join me live coming up. >>> then, while president

today on the today show suskind categorically denied lifting quotes from wikipedia. others have questioned his credibility and one of them is former bush administrator and fox news contributor karl rove. >> i'm not sure how much of this work is true and accurate. my personal experience with him is that he tends to exaggerate. >> reporter: the mt inch send tkraoe revelation in the book was that the white house was hostile to women. former white house communications director anita dunn says it met the classic legal requirements for a generally hostile workplace for woman. she has since said that was the opposite of what she said, a challenging environment for woman, but not a hostile one she has been quoted as saying. the author has played a tape recording of the dunn interview for "the washington post" in which she could be heard saying exactly what the book quoted her as saying. the book hits the store shelves today. we expect a lot more reaction as you can imagine, jon. jon: the churning goes on. interesting. doug mcelway, thank you. jenna: police confirming a story

. >> one passage seems to be lifted almost entirely from wikipedia in the book. >> when cnn followedjay carney was referring to a passage in the book about the federal mortgage firm fannie mae as first reported by the online publication politico. in 1968, it officially became publicly held corporation to remove it debt and related activities from the federal balance sheet. the wikipedia passage says in 1968, if converted to a publicly held corporation to remove its activity and debt from the federal budget. we contacted ron suskin dch ncsa response and a spokeswoman said he meant more than 700 hours with more than 200 individuals in writing the book. the spokeswoman calls it exhaustively researched and sourced and said harpers is proud to be publishing it. >> there is another section of the book that isn't very flattering to the white house regarding the treatment of women who worked for the president of the united states. tell our viewers about that. >> that's right. it quotes christina romer as saying she felt, quote, like a piece of meat after being shut out of a meeting. anita du

bono, rob kardash eight n, ron aes artest, and by the way these wat are all people according to wikipedia. they are actually real. anyway, there are good peopleeoo there. masa, have you been on "theap apprentice" but would you ever do this reality show? >> i am looking forward to nancy grace being on, to beoi honest with you. i am done with reality shows. so >> are you really? are >> yes. >> not part of your reality,arto am i right? is there anything you are rooting for organs?r o >> i never watched the should i, ever. -- the show ever.ersy there was a controversy, chaznt bono. >> the pregnant man felt he. got robbed.am we were talking about this before the program, the heanan still has a vagina. technically, he is not a man. he is a woman with a beard. a >> a transgender jie. no, he>> is not even a transgender. he still has the stuff. >> i think he was taking the glory away from chaz, and and that's just unfair.r. by the way, why does he think he is replacing chaz. that's bigoted to assume that -- there can only be one transgendered person. i find that disgusting. >> i'm pretty sure they

. >> powe's law -- you can find that on wikipedia. is that if someone is speaking very strong christian rhetoric, it's impossible to separate it from satire. you cannot tell if they are kidding. there's no way to tell. if that were on "saturday night live" with someone saying it, i would not question it for a second. there's no way to tell that from perry. no way at all. >> want to try another michele bachmann bit? >> yeah. >> she has another thing here about god and natural disasters. let's listen to that. >> i don't know how much god has to do to get the attention of the politicians. we had an earthquake, we've had a hurricane. he said, are you going to start listening to me here? >> now, why wouldn't an earthquake and a hurricane get the attention of politicians? she has a point there. >> i think it did. i think it did. that seems to me -- i can't believe she gets away with that to anybody. that seems so heartless. it's also -- her tone of voice is so kind of -- she's kind of kidding, right? is she kind of kidding. >> later she sai

that's wrong from individual names that he's gotten wrong to titles, even showing where he has quoted wikipedias own reporting. they're doing everything he can do to tarnish this book and suggest that, by detailed inaccuracies, suggesting that the larger narrative is itself inaccurate. i think you can extrapolate from that that there's a lot of upset about the book more broadly, john. >> angst in a word. >> sorry. it's very noisy here. >> i get it. jess braving the elements. in a few seconds, we're almost out of time, but when you're working a senior job in the white house and these proposals come forward, how do you weigh the pros and cons and say, give him the president. >> the clinton administration made the same mistake. they gave access early on to bob woodward. the president met with him. he wrote a book that was very damning and the president was angry that he had the interview. how did my staff get me into this kind of thing. that happens when you're new and fresh. and you get these early books and they can be very, very upsetting inside. >> we'll watch this one play out. david, jess, t

from this white house, even pointing to passages in the book that seem to have been copied from wikipediaistakes. and i guess in a book that's 500 pages, of course, there are going to be some mistakes, but the white house is arguing that those mistakes really undermine the general premise of the book. >> well, you're right, anita dunn is the president's former communications director and she's quoted by suskind in the book as saying about the white house, this is bad stuff. "this place would be in court for a hostile workplace, because it actually fit all the classic legal requirements for a genuinely hostile workplace to women." and look at this quote from christine romer, the former chairman of the council of economic advisers. according to ron suskind, the author, she thought she was purposely excluded during one meeting with larry summers. he quotes her as saying, "i felt like a piece of meat." both women have since denied saying these things to suskind. well, there's on old phrase in british politics, they would, wouldn't they, deny it. so if they're loyal and they may have said it i

wikipedia it is remarkably 18 if you look at the bush a administration you can level criticism of thebush administration for the way it dealt with terrorism. it didn't end the bin laden threat even though it had eight years to do it. dick clark during that time when he was counter-terrorism adviser to national security council have almost instant access to the oval office and his warnings about al qaeda were delivered almost directly to the president's desk. when the bush administration comes and it appears they have a different view of the world and a different set of priorities most of them dealing with great power questions between the united states and russia and china and missile defense and rogue states like iraq and north korea and iran and terrorism becomes from the documentary records a secondary priority. again what we know is apparently at philip zelikow's surge in he is demoted and don't receive the attention in the bush administration they did in the clinton administration. >> host: we're talking about "the commission: the uncensored history of the 9/11 commission" by phi

i think that -- in fact, one passage seems to be lifted almost entirely from wikipedia in the book.hat analysis is wrong. tim geithner, who lived it, just told you that it bears no resemblance to the reality he lived. >> the book is, "confidence men: wall street and washington and the president." welcome. you spent a couple of years on this book. you had cooperation, access. and now the white house has mounted this campaign -- there's no other word -- this campaign against you. this must tick you off. >> the fact of the matter is, howie, when the book was completed through this summer, i got a sense that the reaction would be different than what it might have been in the spring. when we were coming at the end of the reporting after the interview with the president and the final areas of reporting, the president was sort of riding a very strong wave. i think the white house felt good about many of these disclosures being in a part of the presidenty that they viewed as over. that the president had evolved and moved past it. that's what he says strongly. >> then things got worse -- >>

so with all due respect to the future of a world of wikipedia, we will continue to press until we get legislation that requires any entity that wants to make independent expenditures to disclose who is putting up the money. that is a cardinal rule. it is the basic rule when you start looking at the role of money and politics. citizens have a right to know. and the extremely conservative on finance campaign issues from the supreme court recognized that without any problem at all. >> about the international, i am on the board of something called the global organization of parliamentarians against corruption, an organization in canada, but a number of countries now have chapters. it is taking a steam. people realize this is an issue. you think we have problems, you should look at parliaments in other countries. >> that was a point that landon was making earlier. unless there is another question, i will allow him to close with some observations on that point. >> it is hard to talk about being a world leader if you're concerned about making payroll in producing shareholder value. and so, w

i think, in fact one passage seems to be lifted almost entirely from wikipedia in the book.inistration pushing back chronicles a dysfunctional white house. the book released today "confidence men," joining us now, its author, ron suskind. >> here's the deal. we learned this in 11th grade, okay. if somebody is recording what you say, don't deny that you said it later. i mean, ron, this is amazing. you've of course had the immediate pushback when there were women who said the white house was a terrible place to work for women. >> back when. >> it's a lie. it's a lie. he's making it up. i never said it. you recorded it. you've got larry summers call you a liar, a guy we like but you wouldn't want to have lunch with. larry summers pushes back saying he's a liar. yet larry summers, let's get the quote he pushed back on hard. we're home alone. we're home alone. there's no adult in charge. clinton would never have made these type of mistakes. in the book itself. >> excuse me. >> larry pushes back. clinton would have made the same mistakes. larry pushes back. yet, he admits to you i

it pulls up like an interactive facebook or wikipedia page.veterinarian can update it on-line. tom arnold, not that tom arnold, explains. >> use the tamara on the phone to hover over this code. the idea there is if i have a dog walker, pet sitter, even my vet where everybody can contribute to this single record. >> among its benefits, the collar could be a great alternative for anyone who doesn't want to implant a microchip in their dog or cat. one drawback, someone could easily remove your pet's collar rendering it useless. for more information, check out my facebook page at facebook.com/randi kaye cnn. >>> up next, michele bachmann entering the next phase of her campaign. she'll have to do it with a new person in charge. your cnn political update coming your way next. i want healthy skin for life. [ female announcer ] improve the health of your skin with aveeno daily moisturizing lotion. the natural oatmeal formula improves skin's health in one day, with significant improvement in 2 weeks. i found a moisturizer for life. [ female announcer ]

host: if you go to wikipedia .org, this is what it says about the u.n.. "in regular meetings throughout the year. the organization has six organs. the security council, economic and social council for assisting and promoting economic cooperation and development, the secretary, for providing studies needed by the u.n., and the international court of justice, the primary judicial organ in the trust the council, which is currently inactive. others include the world health organization, the world food program, and the secretary- general, currently ban ki-moon of south korea. tom, a republican in new jersey. good morning. caller: good morning. i want to understand -- how come c-span does not have somebody on their to -- on there to have the agenda 21 program and what it means. host: what is that? caller: agenda 21? sustainable development. i already have some people i know that have already run into this problem. they cannot sell their land. they have to pay taxes on it. host: what does this have to do with the u.n. and world affairs? caller: if you google age

been the evolution of slavery in the north and the south in the western hemisphere according to wikipediahe entry on slavery there are more slaves today than at any point in history even though it is outlawed in all countries. >> guest: with all due respect to wikipedia it is not always accurate. on the other hand some books are not always accurate too. there are millions of slaves in the world today. i know that is the case. it is a terrible tragedy. in the united states there is no question if the south had won the war slavery would have continued. they reciting for independence but also to maintain slavery. they said that very directly. that is what they said in their secession statements. slavery is in danger and we need a new national government that can protect slavery. they wrote it into the confederate constitution. there's no evidence whatsoever that the south would have voluntarily agreed to give up slavery. would slavery still exists today? probably not in the united states or in the confederate states if they were independent. but how that would happen i don't know. some econo