When it comes to the unpredictability of animals, don’t trust killer whales at Sea World, and don’t trust humans that edit Wikipedia.

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

Paul Wehage looks at Kurzweil’s idea of the Singularity in the context of two articles discussing current trends in crowdsourcing and wonders whether the Singularity will really change human nature that much…

Mike Ilitch is the founder of the Little Caesars pizza chain, as well as owner of both the Detroit Tigers and the Detroit Red Wings. Despite perhaps 7,000 page views of his biography per month, Wikipedia has tried and tried, but still botches where Mike Ilitch was born.

Judd Bagley reviews the efforts of the North Korea Uncovered (NKU) project to document a totalitarian regime from eyewitnesses on the ground and in Earth orbit.

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.

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?

Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger blogged about what’s wrong with Web 2.0. Paul Wehage discusses why he just might be right…

An exploration of the Internet’s nature as a vehicle for communication, as well as the role of intent in the authorship of content. Integrity requires making oneself the sole arbiter of success.

In his book “The Wisdom of Crowds”, James Surowiecki approaches crowds with the assumption that each member, however diverse, has one thing in common: a desire to “get it right” with respect to finding solutions to whatever challenges they jointly face. But what happens when some members of the crowd want to get it wrong? Can the influence of a few outliers alter the apparent will of the masses?