FirstMonday’s special issue on Internet banking, e-money and the Internet gift economy includes a “reprint” of my paper Trust in Electronic Markets, published almost …

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Those interested in Wikipedia are discussing the comparison of errors appearing in a sample of articles, reported in by Nature, of 42 article. While I …

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To confirm the power law in Wikipedia edits (many doing a little, a few doing much) this regular expression and Python code parses a Wikipedia …

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On October 4, 2005, I had the good fortune to meet Mike Godwin at the ITS Colloquium. Godwin is famous for his adage that as …

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In the past week the perennial question of “Can you trust the Wikipedia?” arose while I was working on the tedious – though oddly compelling for …

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My understanding is that Zimmerman thinks that good history makes a compelling argument about humans in time. It might be compelling in that it is …

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What is the difference between (sociological) ethnography and history? In taking a methodological course in each of these disciplines this semester I’ve been attempting …

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Week eight: what accounts for the recent spate of scandal surrounding “facts, fictions, and fraud” in American historical scholarship? How might knowledge of these episodes …

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I’m now in my third year at NYU; the first and second year exams are done, and after this semester I will have satisfied …

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The Professional-Lurker mentions Tales of the field: on writing ethnography (Van Maanen 1998), which I highly recommend for “practicum” reading. I’m presently reading another …

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