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Larry Sanger
Online knowledge organizer. Co-founder of Wikipedia, Ph.D. Philosophy.
October 13, 2020
My new book is launched in paperback: Here are some quotes
I am announcing that my 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! Here: Essays on Free Knowledge: The Origins of Wikipedia and the New Politics of Knowledge, Sanger Press (my own…
September 22, 2020
How to Fix Social Media in Three Easy Steps
The social media bullies—YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and more—constantly violate our digital rights. That is the problem. The solution is to wean us off these social media giants, somehow. You own your own data and decide what you see (or not) for yourself. You subscribe to people, period, not…
September 9, 2020
The Future of the Free Internet
I AM—I flatter myself—a truth-seeker. That is part of the reason I have spent so much of my life studying the standards of truth. So, when given the opportunity to start a free encyclopedia, I began to philosophize about free encyclopedias; I developed a vision. The task is fascinating since an…
September 8, 2020
New book: Essays on Free Knowledge
I published my first book this morning. The current cost is $9.95. It is a 270-page ebook, first published on Gumroad, where I'll get a higher percentage. A paperback should arrive in about a month on Amazon if I don't get distracted by other things. Buy via the embedded ad below, and after…
July 30, 2020
How and Why to Decentralize the Internet: a Course
I am thinking of offering a new, independent online course about decentralization and freedom. The focus would be social media; perhaps a future course would focus on free encyclopedias. Or maybe we would do the encyclopedia course first. A proposed reading list is below. Interested? Have…
July 3, 2020
Toward a Superior News Service
Do you run a news startup that features original reporting—not just news aggregated from other sources? Do you want to make it a standout, the sort of service people will point to as "the best solution to all the problems with fake news"? Then I want to give you some free advice. And look in the…
June 15, 2020
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May 14, 2020
Wikipedia Is Badly Biased
The Uncyclopedia logo. Maybe more appropriate for Wikipedia itself now. Wikipedia's "NPOV" is dead.((The misbegotten phrase "neutral point of view" is a Jimmy Wales coinage I never supported. If a text is neutral with regard to an issue, it lacks any "point of view" with regard to the issue;…
April 3, 2020
What Next?
I am an odd fish, I admit. Let me explain, as much to myself as to you, my life path and where it seems to be leading next. My Strange Career I wanted to be a philosopher when I was 17 in Alaska. So I started as an academic and earned a Ph.D. in philosophy in 2000, thinking I would become…
April 3, 2020
15 Principles for New Homeschoolers
A Twitter thread. 1/ Be kind; be gentle; listen to your kids. You now have the opportunity to let them learn in a way that really gets them into learning. This is wonderful, and it is why homeschooled kids do so well. Don't be harsh. 2/ Start foreign languages early. You aren't…
