I just finished reading Eric Goldman’s “Wikipedia’s Labor Squeeze and its Consequences” and it is a more reasoned argument than the hyperbolic prediction …

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The recent focus on Wikipedia “failing” or being “closed” merit some figures and explanation. On the afternoon of Sept 04, 2009 the English Wikipedia has …

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Despite my great pleasure and excitement that The MIT Press will be publishing my book next year (I sent the manuscript to the copy editor …

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I use VirtualBox to run a Windows guest, and unfortunately the shared clipboard between the two is sometimes buggy. I recently posted a script for …

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There’s a tradition at Wikipedia of predicting when a particular milestone will be reached. Earlier expectations about Wikipedia were laughably conservative. While people have …

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There’s been a lot of coverage of the New York Times story “Keeping News of Kidnapping Off Wikipedia.” It’s prompted discussion about balancing …

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Chris Anderson’s “apparent plagiarism” of Wikipedia has prompted me to post something I was experimenting with last week about citations and URLs. Anderson claims …

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At the beginning of this year, I was sad to learn of the passing of Peter Kollock. He was one of the first to carefully …

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I recently finished two works about the “free culture” movement, each of which are polar opposites – and in a way that is unsettling. The most …

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This year’s picnic will be better than ever, as we’ll have an unconference to get us started:

The 1st Wiki-Conference New York will …

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