Have you ever updated Wikipedia? Though the site has 400million readers, only 100,000 people volunteer to edit the site. Jimmy Wales was interviewed on the BBC today as his creation, the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, hit its tenth year and one of the things he said was that he was trying to get more people involved…

A Google Sidewiki for the masses, PushNote lets you annotate the web - leaving a trail of comments across the websites of the world... Available over a browser extension (for Chrome, Firefox or Internet Explorer) Pushnote provides a place for anyone to comment on what's going on any website. Only other people who have Pushnote can…

Wikileaks have some insider dirt on Rupert Murdoch. If Julian Assange gets arrested or "something happens to Wikileaks" the site has a back-up weapon - the insurance files. These contain red-hot material that is actually classified as confidential. We all knew they contained info about the US government, what we didn't know until earlier today…

From the maker of the UKSnow map, comes a new map - one that maps the aches and pains of the human body. Developed by Ben Marsh, it is described as a "social media health experiment". Hoping to work out what parts of our bodes we hurt most, and what injuries cause us the most…

An article in the Guardian today pointed out one of the etiquette dilemmas of this modern age - how to start an email. Okay so most of us have been starting emails just fine for the past five years. But the Wall Street Journal has thrown a cat amongst the pigeons by suggesting that "Dear"…

Placentas are okay, but moaning about work is not - was the rather mixed message from a couple of bizarre Facebook-related employment cases this week.. In the US, a nurse was allowed to keep her job after she wound up in court for posting a picture of a placenta on the site, but in Sweden,…

In a harsh move by Volvo, the car company fired three workers from their factory in Sweden because one of them compared his workplace to a "madhouse" in his Facebook status. The other two were fired for commenting on it. The man wrote the offending status during a break at work just before the weekend…

Errr. So I know it's the week of the world's major gadget fair, CES 2011... but, we just thought we should take some time out to tell you about important scientific research done on cats. The blog Improbable Research (an off-shoot of the Annals of Improbable Research and done by the same people behind the…

Wordpress have challenged their bloggers to write a post a day (or a week) for 2011. It's a tall order for anyone doing a blog for fun. Could you do it? They say: "one hard part of blogging is beyond the awesome tools you use. It's the posting. Coming up with ideas, writing them down,…