Mark Pellegrini wrote:
Everyone's favorite FUD-master is at it again ---
http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/chi-0503200191mar20,1,26199.story?…
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/ A similar hyperbole surrounds such projects as the Wikipedia, a free
online encyclopedia open to all. The Wikipedia's apologists emphasize
the great number of volunteers who have taken part in the project and
the number of entries they have contributed. They emphasize also the
communal nature of the undertaking, in which anyone with a better
understanding of a subject, or a bigger ax to grind, can edit what
someone else has created. Their prime article of faith is that this
openness will inevitably lead to a high level of accuracy and quality.
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Robert McHenry is former editor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and is
the author of "How to Know."
/This is the same guy who called us the Faith-based encyclopedia and
compared us to a public toilet-
http://www.techcentralstation.com/111504A.html
--Mark
"In each of these examples, a small and self-selected group convinces
itself not so much that it represents the greater world beyond the
computer screen but that it is in some ineffable way superior to it,
that it has transcended the need for the hard lessons the rest of us
have learned about how things actually work."
Can anyone say irony? The Encyclopedia Britannica uses an even smaller
number of people to write their articles. Through the years, the EB has
proven wrong in many of their editions. That they are more correct in
their latest works shows that they have the same issues as Wikipedia.
TBSDY