Fuzzy Zoeller and Wikipedia

Fuzzy Zoeller is suing Wikipedia.

Well, at least, he wishes he could.

The Associated Press reported yesterday that Fuzzy Zoeller is suing a Florida-based consulting company for vandalizing his Wikipedia profile.  The paragraph in question has since been removed from both Wikipedia and Answers.com (which draws lots of its info from Wikipedia articles),...

Egyptian Blogger Jailed

 The blogosphere was shocked today when the AP published an article about an Egyptian blogger receiving a 4-year prison sentence for publishing content online that the Egyptian government deemed offensive to Islam and the Prophet Muhammad.

According to the Washington Post:

Abdel Kareem Nabil, a 22-year-old former student at Egypt's Al-Azhar University,...

Who’s on Digg? Not the 2008 Presidential Candidates

With the rising popularity of user-controlled news sites, everyday citizens are no longer dependent on mainstream media to decide what in the news is important.  By now, everyone knows this, and most people understand the power of a site like Digg as a traffic generator for blogs and news sites and also as a means to a highly desirable end for anyone using the Internet…viral status....

The Magazine Study Revisited

After our presentation for the Magazine Publishers of America in NYC on Tuesday, we received some requests for additional research.  I spent this morning trying to find some statistical explanations for the performance of the magazine websites by running some regressions, checking for correlation between the presence of Web features and traffic (as measured by Alexa). ...

Bid on a Year of College Tuition

I saw an interesting item up for bid on eBay this morning…an entire year of tuition, room, and board at Oklahoma Wesleyan University.

Apparently, the bidding started Saturday, with the price now up to $7,500 (as of 3:30 pm on 2/5/07).  Tuition, room, and board at this university usually cost about $23,000,...