Hugh Pickens writes "Episteme, a daily about the social dimensions of knowledge, has a special issue on the epistemology of mass collaboration, with many of the contrivances focusing on Wikipedia. One of the most interesting apparatus is by Lawrence M. Sanger on the special role of experts in the ag...

The introduction of a President-elect who, unlike the previous occupant of the White House, is smarter than the average Village talking head and who is actually responsive -- to an as-yet-unknown but in any case threatening extent -- to the observable wishes of the American people, has created a num...

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Attorneys for five Blackwater Worldwide security guards charged in a 2007 shooting that left 17 Iraqi civilians dead accused the government yesterday of engaging in unfair second-guessing of the contractors' actions in a combat zone....

Attorneys for five Blackwater Worldwide security guards charged in a 2007 shooting that left 17 Iraqi civilians dead accused the government yesterday of engaging in unfair second-guessing of the contractors' actions in a combat zone....

Attorneys for five Blackwater Worldwide security guards charged in a 2007 shooting that left 17 Iraqi civilians dead accused the government yesterday of engaging in unfair second-guessing of the contractors' actions in a combat zone....

Attorneys for five Blackwater Worldwide security guards charged in a 2007 shooting that left 17 Iraqi civilians dead accused the government yesterday of engaging in unfair second-guessing of the contractors' actions in a combat zone....

Attorneys for five Blackwater Worldwide security guards charged in a 2007 shooting that left 17 Iraqi civilians dead accused the government yesterday of engaging in unfair second-guessing of the contractors' actions in a combat zone....

Fred Thompson is not the only former Law and Order cast member to attempt a run for President of the USA in ‘08. Michael Moriarty, who once had the part of prosecutor Ben Stone in the series (1990-94) is also running for President on the ticket of a party no-one seems to have heard of: The Rea...

newVideoPlayer("/jimmy_wales_co_founder.flv", 506, 423,""); Watch Jimmy Wales's face as he's introduced in a segment for this morning's episode of Squawk Box on CNBC. Wales has long claimed to be Wikipedia's sole founder — a fact disputed by Larry Sanger, Wikipedia's cofounder. As CNBC's Joe K...