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News You Can Use Plus Highlights from the Internet Archive for the Week of 8/27/12

Snoop Dogg

A photo I took of Snoop Dogg, before he became Snoop Lion, now lives on a French Wikipedia page thanks to a common Attribution License I gave it through Creative Commons. Find it here: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Snoop_Dogg_2010.jpg

Every now and then we stumble across something so awesome, so incredible, and generally useful for the community at large, we’d be remiss not to share it with you. Our friends at Wikipedia (seriously, we love the happy hours they throw at their offices and they use the BitTorrent protocol) just launched the “Wiki Loves Monuments 2012” photo contest and they need your help documenting historical landmarks, from around the globe, to help illustrate their millions of articles.

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