Wiki-failure
In July of 2006, I argued here that the law review submission process would be aided by a Wiki. The purpose of the page: to collect information on submissions, accepted articles, board preferences, and...
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When Wikipedia Knows Something Too Soon
One of the virtues of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia is that it can reflect new information very quickly after it becomes known. But there’s a rather odd development in the case of wrestler Chris...
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Spies and Wikipedia
Check out this bizarre story: a wikipedia administrator allegedly has distorted editing of the site’s article on the Entebbe operation, because, this site alleges, she is a spy for an unidentified...
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A Slow Day at the Office: Lawyers Editing on Wikipedia
[UPDATE: Welcome Instapundit and AbovetheLaw readers. While you are here, read some of my co-bloggers' great stuff on pirate politics, carbon off-sets, and Max Roach.] WikiScanner is this week’s...
View ArticleWikipedia, Consensus, and Truth (or at least Gary Coleman)
Dave’s post on WikiScanner reminds me of an article last week in The Times about the other juicy revelations that Wiki-Scanner has uncovered, such as self-editing by the CIA, the Vatican, the British...
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The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet
I‘m very excited to announce that my new book, The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy, is now hot off the presses! Copies are now in stock and available on Amazon.com and Barnes &...
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Is Wikipedia Cooling Off?
This newsgroup post, and its accompanying graphical material, makes the surprising claim that the Wikipedia community is less healthy than it used to be: Since early this year, and for the first...
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Chapter 1 of The Future of Reputation Available for Download
I recently placed Chapter 1 of my new book, The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet (Yale Univ. Press, 2007) on SSRN. It can be downloaded for free.
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Wikitruth Through Wikiorder
Almost four years ago, I blogged at Prawfs about a weird dispute on Wikipedia about the Kelo case. I wrote that “[t]here is a whole ADR and conflict resolution system being set up behind the scenes, in...
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Online Symposium: Zittrain’s The Future of the Internet–And How To Stop It
It’s an honor to introduce Jonathan Zittrain and the participants in our online symposium on The Future of the Internet–And How to Stop It. From tomorrow through Wednesday, we will be discussing...
View ArticleHas the Future of the Internet happened?
I wrote the Future of the Internet — And How to Stop It, and its precursor law review article the Generative Internet, between 2004 and 2007. I wanted to capture a sense of just how bizarre the...
View ArticleFuture of the Internet Symposium: Preserving Open Space for User Innovation
First off, thanks to Concurring Opinions and Danielle Citron for hosting this online symposium on Jonathan Zittrain’s The Future of the Internet – and How to Stop it. Before I launch into my own...
View Article19 Points on Wikileaks
Don’t worry, it’s not another prolix post from me, just commentary on Jack Goldsmith’s Seven Thoughts on Wikileaks and Lovink & Riemens’s Twelve theses on WikiLeaks. (And here’s an FAQ for those...
View ArticleAmmori on Assange, Free Speech, and Wikileaks
At Balkanization, Professor Marvin Ammori has a thoughtful post on the Wikileaks story. Professor Ammori, who will be guest blogging with us soon, gave me the thumbs up on reproducing his post....
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Wikipedia’s First Lawyer
In Wikitruth Through Wikiorder, Salil Mehra and I detailed the history of Wikipedia’s dispute resolution process. We highlighted the role of Alex Roshuk, a Brooklyn lawyer and site volunteer who...
View ArticleThe Ugly Persistence of Internet Celebrity
Many desperately try to garner online celebrity. They host You Tube channels devoted to themselves. They share their thoughts in blog postings and on social network sites. They post revealing...
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Wikipedia’s Efforts to Close its Gender Gap
Time magazine recently did a true-to-form story on Wikipedia, where guest editors (and our very own featured author) Jonathan Zittrain (see here too), Robert McHenry, Benjamin Mako Hill, and Mike...
View ArticleCensorship on the March
Today, you can’t get to The Oatmeal, or Dinosaur Comics, or XKCD, or (less importantly) Wikipedia. The sites have gone dark to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act,...
View ArticleAnother Tip That Education Is Changing: Open Stax Textbooks
Costs of education need to come down. Open course materials are growing. Maybe education will indeed undergo a transformation in the next ten years. There are many things that will need to change for...
View ArticleCalling Hoffman and Mehra – Wikipedia Editorial War Zone?
Dave Hoffman and Salil Mehra’s Wikitruth Through Wikiorder is fascinating paper on how Wikipedia and one type of commons works. When I saw this article “Wikipedia is editorial warzone, says study,” I...
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