Mudslinging Weasels Into Online History
604762
Collaborative history is a wild ride, as Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia maintained by users all over the world, discovered during election season.
12957
A collection of sites with first-person accounts and photos
49735
The Web used to be a place where we went to seek information. But with the rise of social networks, we're barraged with a constant stream of data, requested or not
3099
Also: Vigilante hackers target the wrong guy. See what people are saying on News.com Extra.
285360
Blog: Researcher shows how URLs can be spoofed and content arbitrary within Safari 3.0 beta.
378886
People search that connects users to chat to find answers.
44261
An obscure government website that became an Internet conflagration
118934
By Anonymous  WAN lessons learned  Plus: How to hide your online footprints.
312252
By Chris Tomlinson  You may have noticed that the web is obsessed with lists. This is either something to do with ordering content logically or the autistic genius of its early creators.
426554
Ogling Google can be a dangerous pastime.
50939
If you're not ready to feverishly debate Iraq or the deficit in this bitterly divisive election year, you can always surf the Web, where politics is frequently nothing but a big joke.
503351
Rumorville, conspiracy theory, and over speculation results in crazed forum discussion and a possible slashdot mentioning. Jason Dowdell, someone I have spoken with often for about a year now, published a
429406
One of the major issues plaguing search engines right now is the growing list of web documents available online. While no exact numbers are available, there are billions of search results to sort through. But, they can&#8217;t all be relevant both on material content and time &#8212; can they?  Of course they&#8217;re not, and Google [...]
678531
They call it scraping -- when Web companies automatically harvest information from the likes of Yahoo, Google and craigslist. Now the Internet establishment is clamping down.
701396
Now that weâve analyzed the causes for verbal vitriol on the Net, letâs consider a cure. Readers like Ryan , Andrew and Forest Bell blamed the smears and flames on the anonymity offered by the Web. Thereâs lots of research to back the notion that an end to anonymity would encourage people to be nicer. [...].
581516
With the campaign jabber of the 2008 elections already getting loud, an organization that promotes transparency in politics hopes one slice of the Web can promote reasonable, intelligent debate about issues.
90995
Also: Mysterious stone slab bears ancient writing. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.