Google meets Wikipedia-style crowd-sourced comments. Is this a good thing?

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?

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.

A smorgasbord of rants about various things wiki and phonelike.

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?”

Take a journey along a 14-year history of “the answer enterprise”. Is the search-question-and-answer process getting better or worse? Hint: you get what you pay for.