The news that New Yorker music writer Sasha Frere-Jones has joined the crowdsourced annotation site Genius has highlighted the ambitions of the service, which wants to help experts edit the entire… Read more »
Google announced Tuesday that the company is shutting down Freebase, the crowdsourced knowledge base it acquired in 2010 when it bought Metaweb. Freebase is a popular source of information about topics… Read more »
Quora’s head of business believes it’s the safest place on the Internet for writers. But he admits the company has faced it fair share of challenges making it so. Read more »
There are millions of articles on Wikipedia, but less than 6000 contain a video. That’s despite long-running efforts to get more video onto Wikipedia. Read more »
Websites like Etsy are placing a spinning wheel on their websites for a day to warn what will happen if the FCC permits so-called “fast lanes” on the internet. But many… Read more »
Even if you don’t have a desire to read Wikipedia entries on a smartwatch, a new Wikipedia app for Android Wear has a few new ideas about the best way to… Read more »
Wikipedia released slick new apps for iOS and Android last week with features that will end up being very useful for first-time smartphone owners in developing nations. Read more »
For better and for worse, welcome to the world without net neutrality. More people will get online, but unless they have the money to pay their way into the free web,… Read more »
Grasswire’s founder says he launched the crowdsourced breaking-news service because he believes the power of the crowd to generate and curate news is a much stronger force for good than many… Read more »
An increasing number of new-media startups — and even new projects by existing media outlets — are aimed at bringing context, background and analysis to the news instead of just trying… Read more »