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The Internet’s public

From Gizmodo, Matt Honan on the case against Google. Marissa Mayer is Google’s Chic Geek: This self-proclaimed “girly girl” runs one of Google’s fastest-growing services. A look at how bots nearly destroyed YouTube — and how YouTubers got Google to fix it. Once you’re in the weird part of YouTube, there’s no way out. From Wired, how one response to a Reddit query became a big budget flick. Hunter Moore, creator of “revenge porn” website Is Anyone Up? is the Internet’s Public Enemy No. 1 (and more at The Village Voice and more at The New Inquiry). IsAnyoneUp.com shuts down, sells domain to anti-bullying group (but Moore wants everyone to know he’s still a horrible person). Max Read on Celebrities With Big Dicks and other tales from the weird world of Wikipedia books. If Wikipedia is really going to close its gender gap, the editors are going to need more balanced and impartial reporting on the issues at hand. The "undue weight" of truth on Wikipedia: Timothy Messer-Kruse has written two books about the Haymarket riot and trial; in some circles that affords a presumption of expertise — not, however, on Wikipedia.