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Wikileaks Makes Muckraking Easier by Anonymizing and Protecting Sources

Chris Dannen — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:25:09 -0400

Self-Healing Web Apps Make Scaling Easier

Chris Dannen — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:11:53 -0400

The SELFMAN project, an initiative among seven European universities, seeks to build Internet applications that manage, tune, and fix themselves. And they're not too far down the road. When these apps do arrive, they'll make the lives of IT personnel a lot less nerve-racking.

Is Wikipedia in Decline? Scientists Search for Answers in Wikipedia's Numbers

Clay Dillow — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 09:43:45 -0400

Wikipedia's ascendancy to the top of a large pool of online reference sites has come to an end, new research shows. But perhaps even more alarming to eleventh-hour term paper writers and lazy journalists everywhere, the user generated encyclopedia may have started a slow decline, as growth has leveled and the nature of the community has made it less welcoming to new contributors.

Chris Anderson Lifted Wikipedia Passages for 'Free'

Chris Dannen — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:26:50 -0400

The Virginia Quarterly Review took a close look at Wired editor Chris Anderson's upcoming book Free, and discovered that entire passages appear to match entries in Wikipedia verbatim. Says reviewer Waldo Jaquith:

Microsoft Shutters Encarta as Douglas Adam's Encyclopedia Model Wins

Kit Eaton — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 06:57:24 -0400

Microsoft has announced that it's terminating its encyclopedia effort Encarta after 16 years in the business of collecting and publishing knowledge and historic information. The reasons for Encarta's doom are obvious: it's become increasingly technologically irrelevant--in a wonderful parallel to a theory on encyclopedias crafted by sci-fi master Douglas Adams.

Designing in Real Time for a Participation Economy

Alissa Walker — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:39:12 -0400

Everyone's (or no one's) favorite redesigned brands, Tropicana and Facebook, came up yet again at this weekend's Y Conference as Liz Danzico, chair of the ne

The Six Best (and Worst) Things on the Web This Week

Chris Dannen — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:41:56 -0500

You were busy listening to President Obama talk about health care, or watching the economy defy even the most pessimistic doomsayers. But all the while, the Web was churning with news of backroom dealings, car tech, Harvard's secret shame, and the intractable war on drugs. Here's what you may have missed.

Nissan Cube

EyeTry, YouTry, We All Buy From EyeBuy

Kaihan Krippendorff — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:38:23 -0500

As I interview successful CEOs of innovative companies, I
see that there is one pattern of competition that consistently emerges. Pattern #34: Coordinate the uncoordinated.

In military circles they call it 4GW (Fourth Generation Warfare) and some
people may recognize it in Wikipedia or in “open source” software.

Why Government Should Oversee Computer Security

Chris Dannen — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 13:47:55 -0500

There's no such thing as an innocent compliment. That's the lesson behind Koobface, a new virus that is tearing around the two biggest social networks, Facebook and MySpace [NWS], posing as a flattering message from one of your online friends.

Does Managing Your Corporate Reputation Have to Drive You Mad? Four Points to Consider

Norman Birnbach — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:52:02 -0400

Recently, Circuit City made news because of an employee's reaction to a spoof published in Mad Magazine.

You can check out the faux ad here.

I read Mad Magazine as a kid, years ago -- the exact number of years ago is not relevant; most of the usual gang of idiots from when I read it are still alive and still writing for it. (How's that for a career plateau?) And now they have a website.

Is Your Brand Real? (Wikipedia or Bust...)

aaron wall — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:27:16 -0500

Wikipedia vs Encyclopedia

Wikipedia is often compared to encyclopedias while people debate which is better, more reliable, and more accurate. In response to one such study by the sience journal Nature, Britannica refuted the study in a PDF published on their corporate website.

Wikipedia's Rapid Ascent