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.

Are we giving away more personal detail about ourselves than we realize on Social media sites? A Boston Globe article discusses “Project Gaydar” in which two students were able to predict men’s sexual orientation through their Facebook friends list.

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

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.

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?

Internet data collection has become highly unreliable, as consumers disengage from the important questions that businesses wish to ask them. This practitioner is reaching the disheartening point where data based on a web survey merits very little trust any more.

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.