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Seth Finkelstein

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Seth Finkelstein is a programmer, and a winner of the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer Award for his efforts in fighting censorware.

July 2009

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    The moral quandary of involving Wikipedia in online 'censorship'

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    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

June 2009

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    Far too often, new media serves up popularity without accuracy

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    Seth Finkelstein: Check your serving of online news for factual accuracy before you give it a taste

May 2009

  • Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia

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    Do commercial pressures outweigh artistic ideals at Wikipedia?

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  • Twitter bird

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    Twitter is a sucker's game that only serves the needs of a tiny elite

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April 2009

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    Shutdown of Wikia Search proves empty rhetoric of collaboration

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    The shutdown of Wikia Search – an attempt to apply Wikipedia-style ideas to create an open source, ­commercial search engine – came as no surprise to informed ­observers

March 2009

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    Google's surveillance is taking us further down the road to hell

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    Inclusion or deletion? In the end, it's actually about money

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February 2009

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    What's in a name? Everything, when you're talking wiki value

    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

January 2009

  • Joy of Sex

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    Google should learn the difference between real sex and spam

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    Seth Finkelstein: If humans argue so much about distinguishing between erotica and pornography, imagine the difficulty search algorithms have with the topic

December 2008

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    Sting in the Scorpions tale is the exposure of Wiki's weakness

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    Seth Finkelstein: Anyone who needs to use an old album cover to make a Wikipedia sexual controversy is not trying very hard

November 2008

  • Man sneezing

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    Why you should be concerned about Google Flu Trends

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  • A visitor looks at books during the 60th Frankfurt Book Fair

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    Google's copyright war will have open access advocates up in arms

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October 2008

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    Please, Sir Tim: try investigating how corporations rule the net

    Seth Finkelstein comments on Tim Berners Lee's raisiing the issue of how to separate truth from fiction on the internet and worries he may be reviving the Platform for Internet Content Selection idea, which he strongly opposes

September 2008

  • Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia

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    Wikipedia isn't about human potential, whatever Wales says

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    Seth Finkelstein: It's informative to observe how long Wales has been selling advertising around other people's work

August 2008

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    Orwell was right: security by obscurity = ignorance is strength

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    Seth Finkelstein: Is research that uncovers flaws in transportation fare payment systems so dangerous as to justify censorship?

July 2008

  • tea plantation workers

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    How will Wikia cope when the workers all quit the plantation?

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  • American Family Association website

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    Don't just blame the internet for polarised viewpoints

June 2008

  • Judge Alex Kozinski

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    Don't blame the judge for falling through the web's open doors

    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 copyrighted music available on his personal website

May 2008

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    The difference between politics and pornography is a social one

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  • Wikipedia

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    When you have a Wikipedia,everything looks like an edit

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