Five Questions About the Latest WikiLeaks Release
By Amy Davidson
Revelations by WikiLeaks raise concerns about the extent to which the C.I.A. can peek in on domestic and foreign targets.
A Feminist Edit-a-Thon Seeks to Reshape Wikipedia
By Talia Lavin
Ninety per cent of the site’s editors are male. Can a group of volunteers help correct the gender imbalance?
Wikipedia Defends the Monkey Selfie
By Jay Caspian Kang
When a macaque takes a selfie, who owns the photograph?
Why Politicians Plagiarize So Often
By Evan Osnos
As he confronts the consequences, John Walsh might feel fortunate that he is a senator, not an academic or a college freshman or a blogger.
SOPA: Shouting in the Dark
By Amy Davidson
Sometimes it can be easier to think in the dark, or easier to yell. The blackout today of the English-language Wikipedia pages, and Boing Boing…
The Internet’s Day of Darkness
By Nicholas Thompson
Today, Wikipedia has gone dark and Google has black masking tape over its logo. Reddit, Boing Boing, the Internet Archive and many others have shut…
To-Do List: The Wikipedia Alternatives Edition
By Alex Koppelman
Today, Wednesday, January 18th, is a dark day. Literally. Wikipedia has blacked itself out for twenty-four hours in a protest against two anti-piracy bills currently…
Wikipedia Blackout: A Playlist
Today, Wikipedia goes black to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). What does the online encyclopedia’s absence mean for you? Nothing, unless you’re writing…
That Old Dictionary Love
By Ian Crouch
Unlimited access to the online version of the Oxford English Dictionary was one of the joys of my student days. Using it for the first…
To Houelle and Becq, or Leaks of a Different Sort
By Macy Halford
Flammarion, the publisher of "La Carte et le Territoire," stated yesterday that it was considering legal action (Gallaire has now taken down the PDF). And…