Wikipedia? Feh!
I know, I know, I know: Wikipedia is one of the wonders of the online world. I hear this regularly, especially from young journalist friends and also in e-mails concerning Freakonomics. A casual...
View ArticleWikipedia Oops
For the record, I do not hate Wikipedia, as I tried to make clear here. As a showcase of communal knowledge, it is astonishingly interesting and useful. But it is also, alas, a showcase of communal...
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Saving the World Through Distributed Computing
A reader named Andrew Gendreau recently wrote in on the topic of distributed computing, which refers to a method of computer processing in which different parts of a program run simultaneously on two...
View ArticleHate Wikipedia? Start Your Own
Have you all heard of Conservapedia? It bills itself as “a conservative encyclopedia you can trust,” and it is pretty fascinating. It has a strong pro-Christian, anti-liberal (and especially anti-N.Y....
View ArticleGive Your Children Power Tools, and Buy Them Guns
Last week, I blogged about the conservative/Christian website Conservapedia, one of several Wikipedia copycats. Another of these sites is Uncyclopedia, which pokes fun at Wikipedia’s credibility issues...
View ArticleA Few Things (Among Many) I Didn’t Know About Brazil
I am flying to Brazil today for a very brief visit. The Wikipedia entry on Brazil is very good, if true, and now I feel a little bit bad about some of the Wikipedia posts I’ve written in the past. Here...
View ArticleThe FREAK-est Links
Is Wikipedia more accurate than we think? (Earlier) Parentonomics to be published in Australia. Olympic athletes permitted to blog at the 2008 games. Does working in solitude lead to greater...
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By a Bunch of Nobodies: A Q&A With the Author of The Wikipedia Revolution
Andrew Lih Recently, and to the embarrassment of some major publications, a university student in Ireland posted a fake quote on Wikipedia to see how many people would trust it as fact. Several...
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Women Are Not Men: A New Freakonomics Radio Podcast
Our latest Freakonomics Radio podcast is called “Women Are Not Men.” (You can subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, or listen via the media player above. You can also read the transcript below; it...
View ArticleIs Wikipedia Ghettoizing Female Writers?
The novelist Amanda Filipacchi (a very good writer; I happen to have gone to grad school with her) writes in the Times that female novelists seem to be getting ghettoized on Wikipedia: I just noticed...
View ArticleFREAK-est Links
They said it would never happen: Israel’s ultra-orthodox lose many of their exemptions. Health-care economics: how the American Medical Association prices medical procedures. The most popular page on...
View ArticleWomen and Philosophy
In our podcast “Women Are Not Men,” we explored why Wikipedia has such a low percentage of female editors. John Riedl, the researcher who studied the Wikipedia gender gap (and who passed away this...
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Women Are Not Men
Season 4, Episode 1 Women are different from men, by a lot, in some key areas. For example, data show that women don’t: drown, compete as hard, get struck by lightning, use the Internet, edit...
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Women Are Not Men: A Freakonomics Radio Rebroadcast
This week’s podcast is a rebroadcast of a show about all the ways that “Women Are Not Men.” (You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, listen via the media player above, or read the...
View ArticleWikipedia Oops
For the record, I do not hate Wikipedia, as I tried to make clear here. As a showcase of communal knowledge, it is astonishingly interesting and useful. But it is also, alas, a showcase of communal...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Saving the World Through Distributed Computing
A reader named Andrew Gendreau recently wrote in on the topic of distributed computing, which refers to a method of computer processing in which different parts of a program run simultaneously on two...
View ArticleHate Wikipedia? Start Your Own
Have you all heard of Conservapedia? It bills itself as “a conservative encyclopedia you can trust,” and it is pretty fascinating. It has a strong pro-Christian, anti-liberal (and especially anti-N.Y....
View ArticleWikipedia? Feh!
I know, I know, I know: Wikipedia is one of the wonders of the online world. I hear this regularly, especially from young journalist friends and also in e-mails concerning Freakonomics. A casual...
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