If you publicly announce (on the same day) a $2 million grant and the award of a board of trustees seat, people will assume that the seat was “bought” by the money-granting organization. No matter how well (or how poorly) you communicate the transaction, there will be skeptics. Gregory Kohs examines how the Omidyar Network obtained a seat on the Wikimedia Foundation board.

An amusing look at how Wikipedia is always improving. Or not.

In male-dominated spaces on the Internet, what are the advantages of being male? What are the advantages of being female, or of pretending to be female? Paul Wehage examines “gender bending” in multi-user forums.

A brief primer on some happenings in the voice over IP space.

It seems fairly obvious that one man cannot and should not try to both serve the fiduciary interests and protect the corporate missions of two different companies that compete against each other in the same marketplace. Eric Schmidt got it. Will Jimmy Wales ever get it?