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The idea that Wikipedia is dying has become one of the Internet's recurrent stories. Because something used by so many people eve...

It would be something of an understatement to say that encryption is a hot topic at the moment. But leaving aside deeper issues like t...

A post on Examiner.com points out that Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia's co-founder, is interested in Edward Snowden : On Techdirt . 

Last week, we wrote about an organization that was  unhappy  that a Wikipedia article no longer existed. Now we have the opposite problem...

After weathering earlier  attacks  on its reliability, Wikipedia is now an essential feature of our online and cultural landscapes. Indee...

One of the themes of this blog has been the wider influence of open source. Everyone knows about open content projects like Wikipedia, b...

The draft bill of the UK's " Snooper's Charter ", which would require ISPs to record key information about every email ...

I have been writing about the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, ICANN, since its birth in 1998 (see the ICANN entry on...

January 18, 2012 may well go down as a pivotal date in the history of the Internet – and of copyright.  For on that day, the English-lang...

One of the central questions the Wikipedia community grapples with is: What exactly is Wikipedia trying to achieve? For example, does it ...

It would be hard to overstate the contribution of Richard Stallman to the digital world. The founding of the GNU project and the creatio...

If you go to the Italian version of Wikipedia , you will not find a gateway to 847,000 articles in that language, but (at the time of writi...

The idea of the wiki is now so pervasive that we rather take it for granted - "oh, let's just use a wiki" is a typical cry the...

I recently wrote about the suggestion that a "Great Firewall of Europe" should be created - a fine example of political cluelessn...

Wikipedia is often regarded as little more than a poor person's encyclopedia, providing a handy reference collection of basic facts. Bu...

One of the many things I love about Wikipedia is the underlying vision, as articulated by Jimmy Wales: Imagine a world in which every singl...

I love Wikipedia. I love using it, frequently spending many a spare minute (that I don't actually have) simply wandering from one entry ...

One of the important roles of museums and galleries is education: helping the public to discover and explore the masterworks in their collec...

Wow: this is the best single post I have ever read on the commons (and I've read a few): The commons as a common paradigm for social mo...

Last week I wrote about the curious case of Mr Kallas, vice president of the European Commission. He seemed to have problems with the word “...