Openpedia.org > a better wikipedia will require a better conversation

if:book[if:book] There's an interesting discussion going on right now under Kim's Wikibooks post about how an open source model might be made to work for the creation of authoritative knowledge -- textbooks, encyclopedias etc. A couple of weeks ago there was some dicussion here about an article that, among other things, took some rather cheap shots at Wikipedia, quoting (very selectively) a couple of shoddy passages.

Some related posts from Technorati and Google.

Futureofthebook.org[Futureofthebook.org] if:book: whether our IQs have gone up or not, the failure of most television and games to deal with moral complexity and the increasing tendency of TV news to entertain rather than inform have had made other more significant changes in our behavior ”” most significantly we are increasingly unable or resistant to look deeply and all-sidedly into important questions.

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