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From Wikipedia -- the Internet's biggest communal encyclopedia -- to your local book club, wikis allow all users to be authors and editors. They operate on a simple concept -- web-content altered and edited by a multitude of users -- but their influence is complex. A Tech Tuesday look at the recent controversies over Wikipedia and future of wikis.
Ben Bederson, Professor of Computer Science, University of Maryland-College Park; Director of Client Technologies, ZenZui
Alex Halavais, Assistant Professor of Communications, School of Informatics, University of Buffalo
Kat Walsh, Senior Editor, Wikipedia
James Byers, Co-founder, Wikispaces
Baseball is 'America's game' and Black Americans have played it since teams of slaves were formed on plantations in pre-Civil War days. But black baseball reached its glory days with the Negro leagues of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. As we wait for this month's announcement from the National Baseball Hall of Fame of which Negro League figures will be inducted, we review the highlights and history of African-American Baseball.
Lawrence Hogan, Professor of History at Union County College; and author of "Shades of Glory: The Negro Leagues and the Story of African-American Baseball (National Geographic)
Stanley Glenn, President, Negro League Baseball Players Association; and catcher, Philadelphia Stars (1944-50)
Dale Petroskey, President, National Baseball Hall of Fame
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