It’s always a pleasure to be able to speak with people outside of the constraints of a sound bite. Recently I’ve participated in …

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I recently spoke with Noam Cohen at the New York Times about my work on gender in the free culture movement, as mentioned last week …

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The introduction to my draft on free culture and sexism:

In the summer of 2010, David Finsher and Aaron Sorkin’s film about the beginnings …

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Because my book relied upon so many online sources for history and ethnography, one of my goals for its website was to make those sources …

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I was recently asked by a journalist – doing the fact-checking quality journalism aspires to – what was the basis for the claim that Nupedia had 24 …

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I’ve been reading a slew of interesting – and often depressing – links from academia from the end of 2010. Flavia’s entry on students sharing …

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Here are the folks who appear to be the top 20 contributors to Wikipedia’s first 10,000 edits. (‘Josh Grosse’ was combined with ‘JoshuaGrosse …

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Sadly, for those of us interested in Wikipedia’s history, much material has been lost. For example, I found that it was common for people …

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Since I have been back in Cambridge, I have seen no less than three presentations by researchers at Harvard and MIT on the use of …

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I think it is interesting that with the diplomatic cable leaks we’ve seen more venom from those who were ambivalent, and more ambivalence from …

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