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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In Noam Cohen’s recent New York Times article about “The Wars of Words on Wikipedia’s Outskirts” (i.e., the recent ArbCom decision about …

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I recently noted there were some new numbers on the 100,000 feature-quality articles page. In May 2008 (based on a January assessment I believe …

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The challenge at the heart of collective action is how cooperative behavior emerges when there are apparent reasons for it not to. This is famously …

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Because I use speech recognition software (SR) I’m forced to tangle with proprietary software and formats; this provides a continuous reminder of the benefits …

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In the past few months I have received invitations to join varied Google Groups. While they are no doubt easy to set up, the (ironic …

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A brief historical essay is now available at ACM Interactions (or on my site):

“Wikipedia was an accident.” I sometimes offer this (admittedly) exaggerated claim …

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