A dozen times, user-editors posted word of the kidnapping on Wikipedia's page on Mr. Rohde, only to have it erased. Several times the page was frozen,...
AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 06.24.2009 | Media
NEW YORK — The author of a new book about the wisdom of free products on the Web has acknowledged taking some liberties in his own work. Chris ...
Mike Ragogna | Posted 06.15.2009 | Entertainment
Well, it's that time again: Woodstock Fever has arrived (beads and headbands optional) to remind us there actually was music made before American Idol.
Sara Davidson | Posted 06.10.2009 | Living
"Davidson's first job was with the Boston Globe, where she became a national penis finder," read my bio on Wikipedia. What?! I blinked. I read it again. How had this happened?
Leah Anthony Libresco | Posted 05.30.2009 | Media
Wikipedia should reverse its Scientology ruling rather than set a precedent of discrimination that will only grow more dangerous as our lives move online.
Posted 05.29.2009 | Media
Wikipedia has banned the Church of Scientology and its members from editing its site after discovering that members of the church were editing article...
Juliette Powell | Posted 05.19.2009 | Media
Tech innovators connect and conspire for a weekend to recharge their batteries and share ideas between gadgethons and power tool drag racing events.
Juliette Powell | Posted 05.08.2009 | Business
'Crowdfunding', a spin on 'crowdsourcing', is the latest funding opportunity at a time when our funding institutions are failing.
UN Dispatch | Posted 04.28.2009 | World
I was checking out Ban Ki-moon's Wikipedia entry this morning (like I do every morning) and BAM!...
Robbie Gennet | Posted 04.24.2009 | Politics
Governor Rick Perry of Texas brought up the specter of Secession recently and upon polling, a fair amount of Texans and other Americans seem to think Texas seceding from the US would be a good idea.
Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 04.23.2009 | Media
The man whose name has been tied for years to press freedom and the defense of journalists worldwide has become the bête noire of a leading Qatari paper.
Tom Alderman | Posted 04.22.2009 | Media
Like Guttenberg's printing press, the Internet has created radically new opportunities and systems that have put us at the beginning of a seismic cultural shift and yet, something is terribly wrong.
Larry Gellman | Posted 04.22.2009 | Politics
It was Lenin, after all, who almost 100 years ago stated what has become the mantra of the angry Right and the deluded media nearly a century later: A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
Jason Notte | Posted 04.14.2009 | Comedy
You could credit Steve Carell, Mike Myers or Dana Carvey for giving the entire world pause when the word "hard" is used in passing conversation, but none of that really answers who "she" is.
Marc Gunther | Posted 03.26.2009 | Business
Here's one answer: Instead of motivating people or trying to coerce them, companies can inspire them.
Richard Laermer | Posted 03.25.2009 | Media
In the rush to instant expertise, WTFers often forget that the inventors of the stuff they use every single day were born in my time. Ahem.
Ashley Rindsberg | Posted 03.12.2009 | Media
As the blogosphere becomes the place where news stories are grown and opinions are hatched, it must also take care that it's not the place where scandal-mongering and careless rumor-milling are made.
Diane Tucker | Posted 03.11.2009 | Media
For years Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne has been conducting a campaign against naked short-selling of stock, which he wants everyone to believe is causing his company to go down the tubes.
Terry Krepel | Posted 03.09.2009 | Media
A March 8 WorldNetDaily article by Aaron Klein asserts that Wikipedia editors "has been deleting within minutes any mention of eligibility issues surr...
Dave Johnson | Posted 03.03.2009 | Politics
Try this: start or edit a Wikipedia article that includes information that might be unfavorable to conservative corporate interests, perhaps in the a...
Wyatt Closs | Posted 02.26.2009 | Media
As I watch "Black to the Future" on VH-1 and we wind down on Black History Month (set your DVRs for all black movies that will fritter away in days fo...
Craig Newmark | Posted 02.23.2009 | Media
The Roman republic fell into ruin when the unwritten rules and checks and balances failed. Now, people have been developing tools that might confront the challenges of international governance.
Dan Agin | Posted 02.02.2009 | Media
The latest grumble is that Google's effort to digitize scholarly library books and make them available free to the public is dangerous because Google may have a monopoly.
Craig Newmark | Posted 02.02.2009 | Media
Anyone who runs anything, that is, any governing entity, should normally operate in the "culture of participation" mode.
Washington Post | Posted 01.21.2009 | Politics
As if suffering a seizure during President Obama's post-inaugural luncheon wasn't bad enough, Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) endured an additional orde...
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New York Times | RICHARD PÉREZ | Posted 06.29.2009 | Media