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.

A smorgasbord of rants about various things wiki and phonelike.

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.

When Paul Wehage initially posted on Akahele about Wikipedia and Art, it was something he thought would be only a minor curiosity which would perhaps interest a few performance artists and other specialists. However, Wikipedia Art proves to be much more explosive than one would have thought…

According to a recent program on their website, Wikipedia just loves Art. However, do artists love Wikipedia? Art can serve to mirror Society, but what happens when the reflection isn’t what you expect to see? This article deals with how Artists interact with Society and how Wikipedia views Art, with a focus on the Wikipedia Art project attempted in February 2009 by artists Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern.

Inspired by an early exposure to the World Book Encyclopedia, one author searches for similar “truths” on the Internet. Can he find truth amidst the conspiracy theories and lies?