I recently encountered Beth Andres-Beck’s (2012) interesting note asking is reading the Internet convincing women not to study computer science? I find her affirmative …

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I’ve been surprised by the increasing dominance of customer reviews from the Amazon Vine; this program gives select customers free “new and pre-release items …

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Isabel Fay’s and Clever Pie’s Thank You Hater!

Well hello friend Mister Insightful
Thank you for your comment on my little Youtube clip …

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Earlier I noted that feedback to children is associated with larger cultural debates. Amy Chau, a Yale Law Professor, prompted much discussion when she bragged …

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Legal scholars have a saying that hard cases (i.e., unusual/confused) make bad law (i.e., legal decisions). The recent lead in a story …

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A short abstract of my research on feedback and comment:

Comment Culture: Feedback, ratings, and reviews in the age of the Web

Our world today …

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The recent blowup about what Ethan Zuckerman calls attention ethics surprises me a little, but not a lot. A comment by Ito Kagehisa at Boing …

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This fall, I’m excited to finally teach a class focused completely on Wikipedia! Come registration, interested Northeastern students should look for COMM4918.

COMM 4918 …

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The central thesis of David Weinberger’s Too big to know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That Facts are The Facts, Experts are Everywhere, and The Smartest …

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When people choose infocide they are doing two things: they are leaving and they are taking their stuff (information) with them when they go. (Hence …

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