Stacy Schiff of The New Yorker wrote an article about Wikipedia that was first published online in July of 2006 . One of Schiff's sources was a pseudonymous...
Once exposed, Essjay simply piled lie on lie. He invented the PhD to big himself up, not because of stalkers. His claims to receive ten death threats a week...
In my original blog post, I stated that Daniel Brandt had broken the story about Essjay quite some time ago and pointed to a URL on Brandt's Wikipedia Watch...
In following up on my previous XODP Blog post about the fraud perpetrated by the Wikipedian known pseudonymously as "Essjay," I came upon a post at Kelly...
I don't think Essjay should really be the focus. Jimmy Wales should be in the spotlight. The fact is, after Essjay's compulsive lying, Jimmy Wales promoted him...
I am loving "I didn't know the New Yorker would print it". This implies they didn't even ask him about his professorship. Yet he claims that he had a long chat...
1. The press itself lies so often that lying to them isn't such an awful sin. 2. Suppose that the guy is indeed a professor of theology. Would you trust him...
The recent intrigue over Wikipedian Essjay's phony credentials has inspired Larry Sanger to reconsider Citizendium's registration policy : ". . . . We are very...
The beleagured Essjay "retired" from Wikipedia today, and I was prepared to let sleeping dogs lie until I read a post at Andrew Lih's blog : "Paying a source...
Viewer-supported Link TV , recently broadcast a program entitled 9/11 Press For Truth as part one of a two part special entitled Truth, Lies, and the Press ....
The Terror Timeline has had some influence.Tom Fenton used it for one of his chapters on the failings of contemporary journalism(overstretched);the book is...
I have done my level best to avoid posting yet another entry on the XODP Blog about the Wikipedian impostor known as Essjay, limiting myself to commentary on...
You wrote: "These positions gave me an enormous appreciation for just how difficult it is for most people to produce quality writing, just how defensive most...
Yes, let's put Essjay's fraud into perspective: He's a young man who did a foolish thing. His decision to "come out" was obviously made with consulting Jimbo....
As I've stated elsewhere, I think that what Jimbo knew about Essjay and when he knew it are irrelevant, as Jimbo apologized, asked for Essjay's resignation,...
You make a good point in contrasting the perceived personal risk of citing the New Yorker vs Wikipedia. However, it appears Wikipedia is trying to establish a...
The Digg website was launched just over two years ago on December 5th, 2004, and now boasts having some one million users. For those of you who have never...
According to Brian Bergstein of the Associated Press: "Following revelations that a high-ranking member of Wikipedia's bureaucracy used his cloak of...
When the Web was young -- i.e., before the advent of Yahoo! and Google -- USENET [sic] was the primary medium for fielding informational queries on the...
I don't necessarily put fault with the fact checker. I think that it is natural to expect a web site to maintain the accuracy of the data that is presented in...
From 10 things you did not know about Wikipedia : 6. We don't want you to trust us. Good Wikipedia articles are accompanied by liberal references and...
The term "Web 2.0" was coined sometime in 2004 by Dale Dougherty of O'Reilly Media. Far from a new technical standard, Web 2.0 began as a marketing gimmick for...
This scandal seems to be having an adverse effect on the daily financial donations to the Wikimedia Foundation: http://www.centiare.com/Wikipedia_scandals...
"The Terror Timeline" makes a strong case for Pakistani(ISI) involvement in 9/11. The Saudis clearly had foreknowledge of the attacks if not a supporting role....
Hi, I recently joined this group, because I thought it would be a good forum to solicit some feedback regarding a project I founded. As former ODP editors, I'm...
Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "A Post Mortem on Zeal": This is over a year later and the ODP has reached a new low in irrational and cruel...
Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "ODP/dMOZ - In Memoriam, Once Again": June 2007. Dmoz has been offline for 48 hours. It's about time the dinosaur...
Vasiliy Kiryanov has left a new comment on your post "The Waning Relevance of Search Engines": I like your article. The most I like point about search function...
While Googling my byline a month or so ago to keep current on any recent gossip about me, I stumbled upon a thread at Digital Point discussing the merits (or...
For reasons that defy rational explanation, the powers that be at Wikia dispute the claim that Wikia is the for-profit counterpart of the non-profit Wikimedia...
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