Unrounded Circle

Larry Sanger, Wikipedia’s widely acknowledged co-founder, has written a letter to the FBI arguing that Wikipedia, more specifically, the Wikimedia Commons project, knowingly hosts child pornography.

While Sanger’s relationship with Wikipedia and the Foundation in the past few years has become colder, to say the least, I can only wonder what prompted Sanger to rush into notifying the authorities without first a) inquiring whether or not the Foundation was aware of the existence of the offending images and b) actually verifying that said images could indeed be considered as child pornography.

So, after a few months of inactivity and a lost database, I’m back to regular blogging with my input on perhaps the best Ted talk I’ve seen so far.

Jane McGonigal is a game researcher with a PhD in performance studies from Berkeley. Her argument is bold: games —or rather videogames— can help solve many of the world’s problems. How, you may ask? I’ll let her tell you. My comments after the video.