Tilikum and Wikipedia 
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When it comes to the unpredictability of animals, don’t trust killer whales at Sea World, and don’t trust humans that edit Wikipedia.
Nobody’s watching
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The large majority of Wikipedia’s biographies of living people are being put on the watchlists of fewer than four registered editors.
Ron Livingston battles phantom defendant
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Actor Ron Livingston enters the all-too-common nightmare of protecting his reputation from anonymous defamatory attacks.
The State of the Human Economy
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Digging through a few conference notes from the CTAM Research Conference of February 2007, I uncovered a few things I had jotted down while listening to Shari Swan, founder of Streative Branding and former global marketing executive at Reebok. Swan simply presented a timeline of human economic history, but I found it provocative enough [...]
PhotoSketch creates mystic visions
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Can you draw a crude sketch on the back of an envelope or napkin? Then PhotoSketch can (purportedly) render that concept into a seamless “photo” that looks quite realistic. Is this a good thing?
Ten new Wikipedia articles
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An interesting audit (or post-mortem) of ten brand-new Wikipedia articles. How many are useful to more than a handful of daily readers? How many even survive the first day or the first month of publication? The answers may surprise you.
What happens when you cross a search engine with a wiki?
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Google meets Wikipedia-style crowd-sourced comments. Is this a good thing?
MIT students prove that privacy is a thing of the past
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Are we giving away more personal detail about ourselves than we realize on Social media sites? A Boston Globe article discusses “Project Gaydar” in which two students were able to predict men’s sexual orientation through their Facebook friends list.
False sense of security
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From a security standpoint, most of Web 2.0 is akin to inviting a group of strangers into your home, with all your valuables stored under the bed in the next room.
Wikimedia Foundation subletting space?
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It appeared that the Wikimedia Foundation was actively seeking to sub-let some of its office space. Turns out, they are packing up and leaving behind their first San Francisco home, all according to plan.