5 posts and columns on contributors

Man Bites Dog! Web Publisher Pays Writers

in Media on January 16, 2011 at 6:00 am PT

Financial chatter site Seeking Alpha, which has relied on free stories from thousands of contributors for the past seven years, shifts strategies.

Hate Ads? You'll Love This Site. Love Ads? You Too.

in Media on January 14, 2011 at 8:30 am PT

A site for people who love to complain about ads. That’s most of you, right? It’s created by an ad guy, of course.

Many Valley Execs Write Checks To Whitman Campaign

in News on October 27, 2010 at 12:19 pm PT

Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman may be destined to lose her campaign to be the next governor of California–recent polls show she’s running considerably behind long-time California politician Jerry Brown–but she sure can’t blame a lack of support from Valley big wigs and corporate America in general.

You Ask, Jimmy Wales Answers: A Crowdsourced Interview With Mr. Wikipedia

in Media on March 11, 2010 at 3:51 am PT

Jimmy Wales’s Wikipedia relies almost entirely on free contributions from users to create a mammoth Web encyclopedia. What if an enterprising/lazy blogger used the same technique to interview Wales?

Only 13 Percent of Wikipedia Contributors Are Women, Study Says

in News on August 31, 2009 at 9:17 am PT

A broad new survey of Wikipedia users found that only 13% of the online encyclopedia’s contributors are women. The November survey, which had some 175,000 valid responses, was conducted in multiple languages by the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that operates the site, and United Nations University’s tech-research program MERIT. They presented the initial findings last week at Wikimania, an annual conference held this year in Buenos Aires.