I just finished an excellent biography of Ayn Rand and her philosophy in the context of American political culture. While reading, I couldn’t help …

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This week I’ve been reading the reports from camp KDE 2010 and looking forward to attending a few hours of Wikipedia Day NYC. So …

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In the past few weeks there’s been much discussion of news stories based on Felipe Ortega’s dissertation; the concern is that Wikipedians are …

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Successful open communities must occasionally interact with closed worlds. For example, Wikipedia’s openness and transparency sometimes conflict with their obligations to be responsive to …

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In the previous analysis, of the 174 women from the National Women’s History Project, Wikipedia lacked articles on 23 of the women, Britannica missed …

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A possible insight applicable to the FOSS and sexism controversies is the incompatibility of two worldviews.

In the first view, one aspires to a post- …

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The recent controversy about gender imbalance and sexism in open content communities has been remarkable this summer, and this week’s news about Shuttleworth’s …

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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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