Comprehensive, collaborative, ever-growing, and personalized, the Encyclopedia of Life is an ecosystem of websites that makes all key information about life on Earth accessible to anyone, anywhere in the world. Our goal is to create a constantly evolving encyclopedia that lives on the Internet, with contributions from scientists and amateurs alike. To transform the science of biology, and inspire a new generation of scientists, by aggregating all known data about every living species. And ultimately, to increase our collective understanding of life on Earth, and safeguard the richest possible spectrum of biodiversity.
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TED Blog: A good day for the world. The Encyclopedia of Life is launched.
http://tedblog.typepad.com/tedblog/2007/05/a_good_day_for_.html
Those of us in Monterey for TED2007 this year watched in awe as E O Wilson unveiled his inspiring TED Prize wish to create an Encyclopedia of Life. (You can see his talk here… or download it in HD.)
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/83
There are already many stories up online about the Encylopedia. Here’s the official announcement.
http://www.eol.org/press_release.html
The way you wrote this makes it sound like you were at TED2007, although you’re actually just quoting from the TED Blog.
In the comment above, you have:
- the title of the news story;
- the link to this media article (the line just below).
I sometimes use the comment area to put related links. That way, a reader finding a Midas Oracle blog post using a search engine can read the blog post (which was written days and sometimes weeks before his/her reading) plus some additional materials —either external or internal.
As you know the current comment area does not allow us to “quote”. For this, I have to publish the comment, and then after edit my own comment and add the bloc-quote coding. By the way, I don’t get why WordPress doesn’t allow us to use the simple editor right away. Improving this is in my to-do list. Thanks for your remark.