Ars Technica had an interesting story last month about cyberlaw professor Professor Eric Goldman’s speech to the Silicon Flatirons conference, in which he postulated that Wikipedia is heading towards its own destruction. The site’s administration is torn between openness and a closed-ranks approach. As the current, open approach increasingly becomes the target of vandalism, administrators (including [...]

“Skittles, the Mars candy brand, today replaced its homepage with a Twitter-search for the word ‘Skittles.’ … In doing so, Skittles essentially handed over control of its page to Twitter-users, for better and worse … The Skittles meme went viral on Twitter, and “#Skittles” is today’s most-popular term on the micro-blogging site … This isn’t the [...]

Right now, I’m both incredibly happy and incredibly confused. If you used to read my blog regularly, you may have noticed that my last post was about eight months ago before I disappeared with a short note that I’d be back soon… but then, nothing else. To cut a long story short, while the first [...]