The suppression of news about a reporter's disappearance saw the New York Times and Wikipedia work together – but raises issues about control of information When the New York Times revealed it...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2009/jul/08/wikipedia-censorship-seth-finkelstein
When websites jump on a news story it's a case of how many hits can you get. It might also make sense for them to check facts before serving them up Many media organisations, ranging from blogs ...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2009/jun/17/seth-finkelstein-read-me-first
When do commercial pressures affect ideals? Testing that proposition was an unexpected result of the 'Wikipedia Art' project When do commercial pressures affect ideals? Testing that proposition ...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2009/may/28/read-me-first-wikipedia-art
Let me start by confessing I do have a Twitter account . But I won't be fooled again. That is, I refuse to once more play the attention-seeking game, where everyone enriches the contest runner an...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2009/may/07/twitter-is-a-suckers-game
Sometimes, a business project that is predicted as likely to fail, both by experts in the field and successful entrepreneurs, is not a misunderstood vision but truly flawed. There is a quote by...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2009/apr/16/wikia-search-seth-finkelstein
Google recently took another step along the path of surveillance as a service, launching what it called "interest-based advertising", and which everyone else calls "behavioural targeting". These...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2009/mar/26/seth-finkelstein-google-advertising
One of the perennial debates about Wikipedia is "inclusionism" versus "deletionism", which revolves around what topics should be covered. Inclusionists assert "Wiki is not paper. Wikipedia is ...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2009/mar/05/wikipedia-seth
A question of confusion has no simple answer, as shown by an argument over the names of wiki-based sites dedicated to providing answers to questions. Wikia Inc's "Wikianswers" site is answers.wik...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2009/feb/12/wiki-answers-wikia
Real sex is difficult for the Googlebot. If humans argue so much about distinguishing between erotica and pornography, imagine the difficulty search algorithms have with the topic. Two years ago,...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2009/jan/22/google-censorship
The Internet Watch Foundation's considering an image on Wikipedia - the cover of the heavy metal band Scorpions' album Virgin Killer - to be a "potentially illegal indecent image of a child" set ...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/dec/18/wikipedia-jimmy-wales
With Google Flu Trends , a project devoted to inferring outbreaks of influenza from search queries, Google has unwittingly hung a big sign on itself advertising services for government surveillan...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/nov/27/privacy-searchengines
When a proposed settlement was reached in a lawsuit by book publishers and authors against Google , it was a major event in the ongoing copyright wars. The dispute has been emblematic of the issu...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/nov/06/google-open-access-copyright
Many years ago, I had the privilege of arguing with Tim Berners-Lee about censoring the internet. The context was an old system called PICS - "Platform for Internet Content Selection", derided as...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/oct/16/censorship-timbernerslee
Proselytisation of the cult of Wikipedia has reached new heights. Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, has joined a speaker's agency (amusingly, he's advertised just above Karl Rove). Note that ...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/sep/25/wikipedia.internet
Is research that uncovers flaws in transportation fare payment systems so dangerous as to justify censorship? That issue is being litigated once again in a legal case brought by the Massachusett...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/aug/28/security.law
What happens when digital sharecroppers are not happy on the electronic plantations? A dispute (over the amount of space devoted to advertising) between the wiki-hosting startup company Wikia, In...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/jul/31/wikipedia
The American Family Association's "news from a Christian perspective" site provided much amusement on the Guardian's Technology blog when it blindly substituted words in news articles, notably tu...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/jul/10/blogging.politics
Security by obscurity - isn't. That's what the prominent and colourful judge Alex Kozinski found out as the news media publicised the existence of a collection of bawdy humour as well as some cop...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/jun/19/hitechcrime.internet
Censorship in China was one of the "opportunities" seen by network router corporation Cisco Systems, according to a presentation leaked just before a hearing of the US Senate Subcommittee on Hum...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/may/29/censorship.humanrights
There's a cliche that when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. The latest iteration of the "Wikia Search" project might be summed up as "when you have a Wikipedia, everything looks ...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/may/08/wikipedia.searchengines