We decided this week to take a little break from the outward-looking review of the Internet to give you an inward-looking perspective on the four directors of the Internet Review Corporation.

Group collaboration is not always a bad thing, especially when individuals perform specialized activities to produce a group advancement. The use of Twitter and Facebook during the recent Iranian electoral uprising also implies that a clearly defined common intent makes more effective use of these tools. Paul Wehage explores how these ideas might be more relevant to our own individual lives than we might suspect.

Iconoculture calls the new wave of social media “the real Second Life”.

Political biographies of living statesmen, on the world’s most-consulted reference website, open for editing by any partisan vandal. What could possibly go wrong?

A smorgasbord of rants about various things wiki and phonelike.

Akahele doesn’t just talk about Wikipedia Art. Akahele creates Wikipedia Art. Wehage and Kohs create works for the Wikipedia Art Remixed project for the Venice Biennale.

Andrei Codrescu asks, “Did the washing machine and the car really create such leisure time that we are giving it over to Google? Are the machines really working that well together?”

The speed with which Web 2.0 came into full-blown existence is in large part the reason this latest consumer-focused media revolution has come into being free of the expected restraining forces – normally offered by order-injecting referee institutions. Hence, not only must Web 2.0 content be largely user-generated, so too the means of protecting truth and reputations.