Chris Bowers, Open Left AlterNet: PEEK. August 11, 2008. Copying your report on a subject directly from an encyclopedia is something most people are encouraged to stop doing in, oh, about the sixth grade.
Annalee Newitz, AlterNet. May 22, 2008. We need to organize and actively make things uncomfortable for the companies trying to regulate our use of online technologies.
Eric Haas, AlterNet. October 26, 2007. Editing tactics known as "white-washing" may compromise Wikipedia's future as a democratic source of reliable information.
Adam Howard, AlterNet: Video. September 6, 2007. Stephen Colbert comes out against "Wikiscanner" because it prevents us from indulging our virtual universe fantasies.
Annalee Newitz, AlterNet. August 20, 2007. Anonymity online is on the rise, allowing people to write, lie and manipulate data without feeling responsible for it. But who's doing all this hiding? Hint: It's not angry, pajama-wearing bloggers.
Rich Knight, SMITH Magazine. July 13, 2007. Meet Richard Farmbrough, a 45-year-old technology project manager living in England -- and the man with the most Wiki entries since its launch in 2001.
Annalee Newitz, AlterNet. December 19, 2006. WikiChix was recently formed by women contributors sick of how male-dominated Wikipedia has become. The question their move raises is as old as feminism itself.