Wikirage Offers More Fascinating Insight into Trends

Read/WriteWeb, one of my favorite blogs, just posted an interesting article on a new site called Wikirage; a site that shows what topics are the most trendy (popular) at Wikipedia. How Does Wikirage Work? Wikipedia’s detailed traffic statistics are not available...

Is Wikipedia Corrupt?

Responses to my previous posting called “How to Ethically Update Wikipedia” have been incredibly polarized and I felt it was important I provide some visibility to the ethical issues and ramifications faced by an immensely influential volunteer-run...

Digg Signs Three Year Advertising Deal with Microsoft

Today Microsoft earned a win that made me look twice by convincing Digg to sign a 3 year deal where Microsoft Ads will be the “exclusive provider of display and contextual advertising on Digg”. Having previously used Google Adsense to serve ads (according...

A Peak at the Future of Social Media

This post at Search Engine Journal references a social media project at Carnegie Mellon called Socialstream which, among other things, was created to “rethink and reinvent social networking”. Of even more interest is this capstone project is...

Social Media News of the Day

A new social media website called Thoof has recently come out of beta. Thoof is similar to Digg but features a couple of interesting differences: Titles and Descriptions for content added to Thoof can be updated by users to make them more useful. This is particularly...