I was recently asked by a journalist – doing the fact-checking quality journalism aspires to – what was the basis for the claim that Nupedia had 24 …

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I’ve been reading a slew of interesting – and often depressing – links from academia from the end of 2010. Flavia’s entry on students sharing …

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Here are the folks who appear to be the top 20 contributors to Wikipedia’s first 10,000 edits. (‘Josh Grosse’ was combined with ‘JoshuaGrosse …

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Sadly, for those of us interested in Wikipedia’s history, much material has been lost. For example, I found that it was common for people …

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Since I have been back in Cambridge, I have seen no less than three presentations by researchers at Harvard and MIT on the use of …

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I think it is interesting that with the diplomatic cable leaks we’ve seen more venom from those who were ambivalent, and more ambivalence from …

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One might think the title of Kevin Kelly’s new book, What Technology Wants, is meant to be provocative except that he means it literally …

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For a number of years now I’ve been using NaturallySpeaking speech recognition via a virtualized Windows environment on Ubuntu. Speech recognition gurus will recommend …

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A few weeks ago I sat down with David Weinberger, author of Everything Is Miscellaneous, to talk about Wikipedia. When David asked me if concerns …

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A convergence of events and reading has me thinking about trolls. First, I recently began reading Bill Eddy’s High Conflict People in Legal Disputes …

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