"Nigger Troll," center, and other assorted Internet trolls. Photo by Bob Owen.
By Brian Chasnoff
February 2010
When the photograph of someone holding a severed dog’s head surfaced online last month, it unleashed some of the Internet’s most absurd and nihilistic tendencies.
By Brian Chasnoff
December 2005
All Daniel Brandt wants for Christmas is to dismantle the very structure of one of the Internet’s most popular compendiums of public knowledge.
Not to mention a little privacy.
The latter is particularly hard to come by for the San Antonio resident these days. As the sole man responsible for tracking down the author of an absurdly erroneous biography posted on the online encyclopedia Wikipedia — which often solicits input from anonymous volunteers — Brandt, 57, lately has found himself thrust forcefully into the limelight.
