The recent discussions about the deployment of features for supporting vetted/approved pages and trusted authors, starting with German Wikipedia and perhaps expanding to the …

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I recently read Andrew Keen’s The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet Is Killing Our Culture. Keen provides an easy to read …

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At this year’s Wikimania conference I was talking to Cormac about my dissertation and how at the beginning of the 20th century some like …

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It is with interest that I’ve noted Lawrence Lessig’s announcement a career shift away from his work on restoring sanity to the copyright …

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One of my favorite categories in my “field notes” mindmap is that of “zeitgeist.” Very little of this material will actually find its way into …

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I’ve been following the discussion at the Web 2.0 Forum with interest. In summary, Michael Gorman of Encyclopaedia Britannica complains that Web 2 …

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While grading papers I noticed that a student referred to the Wikipedia definition of teleonomy, a concept I have discussed in class, with a quotation …

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Sanger’s latest article, Who Says We Know: on the New Politics of Knowledge is an argument that meritocracy, including an authority accorded to credentialed …

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Since I am a student of plagiarism in reference work production, I read with interest Daniel Brandt’s (2006) analysis of Plagiarism by Wikipedia editors …

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On the Association of Internet Researchers mailing list Tamara Paradis raised the question of the origins of the term “Internet”. I am not sure why …

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