Actor Ron Livingston enters the all-too-common nightmare of protecting his reputation from anonymous defamatory attacks.

Can you draw a crude sketch on the back of an envelope or napkin? Then PhotoSketch can (purportedly) render that concept into a seamless “photo” that looks quite realistic. Is this a good thing?

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.

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.

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?

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.

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

If we can’t trust Honest Abe Lincoln’s whereabouts in 1854, then what *can* we trust? The Internet seems to coax more people to believe more misinformation than ever before.