A Canadian journalist discusses why Wikipedia contributors might be motivated to "scoop" each other.

An outsourced contractor working on-site at NBC posted about Russert's passing on Wikipedia before the news was otherwise released to the public.

This story about Stanford law professor Larry Lessig attempts to explain his shift from a largely technological emphasis to his focus on corruption.

Valleywag has created a chart of mainstream media mentions of Web 2.0 as extracted from Nexis and suggests that the buzzword is peaking.

If only more news shows were like "Countdown." I do tire of the celebrity news in the second half of the program.

Blog Barbie doll Amanda Congdon has parlayed her Rocketboom fame into a gig "at one of the three major television networks."

Steve Safran sounds off on how CNN Headline News commentator Nancy Grace refuses to accept any responsibility after a woman committed suicide after an agressive interview.

A map showing changes in real income over the past six years. Income has dropped in nearly all states, including a 9.9% drop in Texas.

This had me rolling when I saw it on MSNBC. Brian Williams presses the president on the news that he read Camus's The Stranger - a book about a white man killing an Arab for no reason - and hilarity ensues.

Archive.org has cached millions of websites related to the events surrounding Hurricane Katrina. They're the folks responsible for the Wayback Machine, so they would probably be caching this information anyway, but it's nice they have the Katrina gateway.

In my opinion, Wikipedia's struggles to provide quality information about breaking news aren't any worse than the mainstream media's, but a Reuters reporter apparently thinks so.

Amanda Congdon may not have had a controlling stake in Rocketboom, but she was certainly the draw. Pushing her out of the project was a dumb, dumb idea.

This has been posted everywhere, but if you haven't read it yet, you must. I don't fault senior-citizen senators for not being up on technology developments, but they are responsible for hiring staffers that understand the issues.

A meteorite strikes Norway with force comparable to the atomic bomb that hit Hiroshima, and I learn of it through blogs, rather than TV news? Damn corporate media.. I guess they were too busy reporting on Natalee Holloway.

The internet news site has published 30 pages of documents that detail AT&T's compliance with the NSA's domestic spying program. These are under seal in the EFF's litigation against AT&T, but I'm glad they're out in the open.

This overview of news aggregators is for folks who haven't swallowed the Web 2.0 Kool-Aid.

The venerable database service is adding blogs to the content it hosts, adding a whole new level to blog metrification.

Interesting blog post alleging the AOL-owned gadget blog Engadget has a "blacklist." If a blacklisted blog breaks a gadget story, Engadget editors will hold off on publishing until a non-blacklisted site reports the same story.

Leave it to the Bush administration to hire someone with an evil twin.