Category: Publishing
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Nature Agreed to Publish My Wikipedia Letter—Then Ghosted Me
Earlier this year, leading scientific journal Nature published an editorial lavishing effusive praise on Wikipedia, writing that it is “an antidote to an increasingly poisoned information ecosystem.” Naturally (no pun intended), as co-founder,
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Plan for a Public Notebook
Some background My strange career began with academia and a little college teaching, and then a series of knowledge and education startups and consulting stints. I have rarely been short of interesting opportunities,
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Grokipedia: a first look
To begin with my credentials for those who arrive here not knowing who I am: I’ve started, or helped start, five encyclopedias and meta-encyclopedia projects, including Wikipedia. So I know a thing or
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How Big Pharma uses Wikipedia to push health propaganda
Guest post by Sharyl Attkisson. I don’t often host writings of other people on this blog, but I’ll make an exception for Sharyl, whose book, Follow the Science: How Big Pharma Misleads, Obscures,
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Free Information of the Third Kind
The Generative AI Threat to Freedom, and How You Can Help to Stop It LarrySanger.org has relaunched with a new design I made all by myself. As I am now long gone from
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Why Neutrality
I drafted this article for Ballotpedia.org, where it first appeared December 2015. I since published a slightly updated version (not the one below) in Essays on Free Knowledge. As a teenager, I habitually scanned
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Social Media Meets RSS, v2
What Is Minifeed? YOU want to control your social media feed. You want to own your follower lists. You don’t want to have to please the poor, pitiful moderators at some giant, cynical
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A first attempt at using WordPress for microblogging
Here is the brand spanking new Larry Sanger Microblog, which lives at a domain I had sitting around doing nothing: http://StartThis.org. As you’ll see, it looks a little like a social media feed.
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The Era of Centralized Social Media Is Over
For too long, we have made what has amounted to a Faustian bargain. If you post your comments, your pictures, your videos, your essays, your reviews—your content—on Big Tech’s enormous centralized platforms, then
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My new book is launched in paperback: Here are some quotes
I am now announcing that my new book is now available on Amazon in paperback. Please show your appreciation for this blog (and my other attempts to enlighten the world) by buying it!
