Note: I’ll be having surgery on my leg tomorrow, so this will probably be the last article you will see from me for a few days while I recover. I can be reached via Twitter or e-mail while in the hospital. Sita Sings the Blues is an amazing animated feature created by Nina Paley. I first heard it ...

Ron Russell mentioned a story in the comments that I saw on Drudge earlier today just before I left for my appointment. Let me vent for one second before I go on...WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING?! This headline at Drudge made my heart race: Wikipedia Scrubs Obama Page Clean of Critical Entries . My abso...

I wasn’t as objective as I could have been in this piece, which is an editorial, not, technically, an article. I’ve decided Wikipedia editors probably were too aggressive in blocking edits regarding Barack Obama controversies, but I still hold my other opinions firm. And as always, my vi...

As always, consider the source. In this case, consider the source considering another source. (If you want to be a stickler, you can include me in that consideration, a source considering a source considering another source. Ah, academics.) World Net Daily reports changes made to Wikipedia’s e...

Wikipedia users have scrubbed all references to homegrown terrorist William Ayers and the controversial Rev. Jeremiah Wright from Barack Obama's entry at the online encyclopedia. Apparently, any information posted about Ayers or Wright in the text of the Obama biography is not only immediately taken...

Interesting interview with the new (and first) CIO for the United States: Vivek Kundra: Federal CIO in His Own Words VK: I think you look at open source, as a technology, whether it's mediawiki, for example... with Wikipedia what we did in the District of Columbia was that we had a wikipedia solutio...

It is not a surprise that the brilliant minds secreted away on the Google campus have come up with a dandy of a new tool called Knol. If you’ve been following the recent articles I wrote on digital advertising and article marketing you’ll see that what we have here is an avenue to communicate. ...

  Sometimes, when we read Wikipedia we think to ourselves "why don't they just call a spade a spade? What's the point of mis-educating the public?" But that's what the Urban Dictionary is for we guess, and also, apparently, Wikipedia audio, which offers an enlightening tut...

Skittles on Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube Years from now, people will look back to the day Skittles ditched its flashy site and chose to load the top social websites that talk about it instead. I can’t even begin to fathom how brilliant a campaign this is (despite being pioneered by Moder...

One of the big topics of discussion today is the new Skittles website. What’s so fascinating about it? Well, thanks to the work of an outstanding agency, the Skittles site is loosely integrated with social media applications like Twitter, YouTube and Flickr. Yeah, you heard me right…I sa...