After poring over the Dutch and French versions of Wikipedia, the Dartmouth team concluded that anonymous “good Samaritans” are actually among the site’s most valuable editors.
Northwestern University psychologist comes under fire for research on transgender women and is hounded online by critics.
The Internet - and Wikipedia - change the rules for distribution and production. It means that those with knowledge do not have to retreat to the ivory towers to share what they know. It means that individuals who know something can easily share it, even when they are not formally declared as experts. It means that those with editing skills can help the information become accessible, even if they only edit occasionally.
Many players of Eve Online have become convinced that CCP (the company that makes Eve) has rigged the game in favor of a mighty alliance of players called Band of Brothers. In what appears to be a first, the company plans to hold elections so that players can select members of an oversight committee.
"Nickelodeon has already embraced the user-generated video fad on its Web sites. Now the network will bring that interactivity full circle with a weekday program that incorporates material produced by children."
"The Associated Press has partnered with a citizen journalism site, NowPublic.com, to integrate user-generated content into the wires."
Is your online social life suffering? Having problems getting rid of that pesky friend on MySpace or Facebook? Want to give Tom the boot, but are afraid of hurting his feelings? Then this is the place for you. BreakYourSpace is a unique service that specializes in breaking up with your online friends.
Digg's system works only so long as the crowds on Digg can be trusted.
The author created a low-quality story and hired a Digg-gaming service called User/Submitter to buy votes. Digg's system works only so long as the crowds on Digg can be trusted. Whether they can be trusted in the long term remains to be seen, given the incentives built into the system for voting on the most popular stories.
This article is filled with stories of people cheating reputation rating systems to earn trust. It also describes Paul Resnick's research on the role of online rating systems in building trust. Resnick seems to argue for a structural approach to curbing the cheating - create powerful algorithms to force people to be trustworthy.
This blog post provides links to Henry's "best of" posts about intellectual property, participatory culture, education, the moral panic, Wikipedia, YouTube, and Second Life.
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After poring over the Dutch and French versions of Wikipedia, the Dartmouth team concluded that anonymous “good Samaritans” are actually among the site’s most valuable editors.
Northwestern University psychologist comes under fire for research on transgender women and is hounded online by critics.
Is your online social life suffering? Having problems getting rid of that pesky friend on MySpace or Facebook? Want to give Tom the boot, but are afraid of hurting his feelings? Then this is the place for you. BreakYourSpace is a unique service that specializes in breaking up with your online friends.
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