[This was published in German as “Die Trolle Werden Aussterben” in the October 23 2015 edition of ZEIT Wissen]

We are told “Don’t read …

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This evening I’m supposed to speak with BBC’s Newsday about the Internet’s outrage over the Walter Palmer’s shooting of Cecil the …

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An interesting study is being widely commented on, but, as is often the case, the press glosses about “harassment” are a bit askew. For instance …

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In the conclusion to Mako Hill’s article “Almost Wikipedia,” he takes issue with my characterization of Wikipedia’s success as luck . (To be clear …

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A quick recap on United States intellectual property for my students.

Copyrights and patents are monopolies granted in law to creators so as to encourage …

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As I wrote in the post “Not notable: Dead to Wikipedia,” I was disappointed with the quality of my biography on Wikipedia, but (aside from …

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I enjoyed listening to Stepehn Dubner’s Freakonomics interview with Katherine Milkman; in it they talk about “temptation bundling,” a term that Milkman and her …

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I enjoyed reading Meredith Patterson’s recent essay “When Nerds Collide: My Intersectionality Will Have Weirdoes Or It Will Be Bullshit.” While reading it I …

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I think one of the reasons for my discomfort with many of the arguments I see online (especially in the Twitter context, like the #stopwadhwa2015 …

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Privilege is often understood by way of metaphor. Like any tool, a given metaphor is apt for some tasks more so than others. Even so …

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