The latest issue of the journal Episteme has all the buzzwords of current topics. It's about Web 2.0, Wikipedia, prediction markets. And epistemology. Big time.

But don't bother. This journal is quite pretentious, and the articles are not particularly well written. Worse, there doesn't seem to be much in the way of new thought there. Rather it seems like a handful of scholars who have just caught on to what's been going on and are talking about it as thought it's the latest and greatest. It reminds me of going to a session at the American Anthropological Association meetings in 2003 and listening to a sincere anthropologist give a 6 point talk on how to use Powerpoint.

The only gem seems to be a long-ish article by Larry Sanger (Wikipedia co-founder) on expertise on Wikipedia:

Sanger, Lawrence M. 2009. "The Fate of Expertise after WIKIPEDIA." Episteme 6:52-73.

I'm not sure I agree with most of what he has to say – I need to stew on it a bit more. But regardless I think it's an interesting piece of opinion and history from someone who was there at the beginning.