Larry Sanger - Post-Citizendium

Post-Citizendium

In early 2009, Sanger effectively ceased to edit Citizendium, although an announcement confirming this was not made until July 30, 2009 on the Citizendium-l mailinglist. He had worked at WatchKnowLearn project, a non-profit online community devoted to rating and organizing into a large directory hundreds of thousands of short videos and other media, making it possible to find subjects taught to school kids watchable on one website. Business Edge Services and Technologies, Inc. completed the project under the direction of Larry Sanger. Sanger was the executive director of the system.

In April 2010 Sanger sent a letter to the FBI detailing his concern that Wikimedia Commons was hosting child pornography in its pedophilia and lolicon categories later clarified as "obscene visual representations of the abuse of children". Sanger said that he felt it was his civic duty to report the images.

On September 22, 2010, Sanger stepped down as editor-in-chief of Citizendium but is still willing to offer advice and continues to support the goals of the project. In December 2010, commenting to WikiLeaks, he said: "Speaking as Wikipedia's co-founder, I consider you enemies of the U.S.—not just the government, but the people."

He is working on developing educational projects for individuals behind WatchKnowLearn, originally named WatchKnow. He is producing a reading-tutorial application that will be applicable for beginning readers of all ages. The name of his new reading project is Reading Bear. He began blogging on various subjects, including baby reading. A blog post, "Is There a New Geek Anti-Intellectualism?" was discussed in 2011. Sanger is interested in incorporating vast online teaching video multimedia encyclopedias for early education using technology. He is a writer, speaker, and a consultant on the topic of collaborative online communities.

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