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Dane Bramage: That's it for Headlines today. Remember to visit the usual suspects for more "headliney goodness"! basil at basil's blog Lyn at Bloggin Outloud Linky Business Friday Celebration Open Post & Trackbacks at Bloggin Outloud Technorati tag: Humor Headlines (via Cosmos)
DIGITAL STREET JOURNAL: “Unlike, say, the Encyclopedia Britannica, Wikipedia has no formal peer review for its articles. They may be written by experts or insane crazy people. (via Cosmos)
Time Makes Fools of Us All: A wrong-minded column that purports to describe the problems with Wikipedia. Column summary: in the minutes after Ken Lay’s death, some people wrote inaccurate/biased things in his Wikipedia entry. (via Cosmos)
Wikipedia Blog: But that's okay, because wikis and blogs are going to make journalists obsolete in a couple years!" This is a boundary dispute -- and, in the context of newsroom cutbacks and layoffs, one that strikes fear and pissed-off-ness into the hearts of journalists who can see one side of the coin (that Wikipedia is not a good replacement for a newspaper) but not the other (that almost nobody expects wikipedia to be a replacement). (via Cosmos)
WordPress ”º Error: The Tribune would have done well to point out the irony that this very Reuters article had to be corrected after citing the family as a source–a fairly egregious mistake given the family's continued silence on the issue and the lack of an official cause of death. (via Cosmos)
Undercurrent: article, I'm collecting interesting material about the web encyclopedia: In-depth interview with leading Wikipedia practitioners about how and why Wikipedia works. The perils of breathless encyclopedia writing and editing of breaking news stories: The case of Kenneth Lay. (via Cosmos)
The Eternal Golden Braid: Wikipedia Wikipedia is good. Wikipedia is bad. Me? I love Wikipedia. I use it all the time. Can you name another encyclopedia that has articles on Good Eats, Firefly, saffron, Cordwainer Smith, The Cold Equations, The Baroque Cycle, an Eternal Golden Braid (via Cosmos)
[Loosewire.typepad.com] the LOOSE wire blog: The New Cliche: "It's the Wikipedia of...": Laptops This from Nicholas Negroponte, describing his $100 laptop for the developing world (via Andy Carvin's Waste of Bandwidth): "It's the Wikipedia equivalent (of hardware)," he said, describing the spirit of the laptop initiative.
[Bitsplitter.net] Bitsplitter Blog » Blog Archive » Jimmy Wales from Wikipedia: Relies on the kind of social model that arose from the Wikipedia. Software does not enforce social rules, the rules aren’t even set down in advance.
[Connotea.org] Connotea: Declan's bookmarks matching tag wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Errors_in_the_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Brit annica_that_have_been_corrected_in_Wikipedia
[Mashable*] Digg and the So-Called “Wisdom of Mobs”: When the story to correct the attack on Mallet was doing the rounds last night (I followed it from when it was first submitted till it went to the front page using Digg Spy), I was thinking that an excellent feature for Digg would be something allowing posts on the front page to be self-correcting. That is, once someone finds enough information contrary to the rumor du jour, there ought to be some way to percolate that fact back up to the top.
Reflected tags on Technorati: Blog, Wikipedia, Openpedia.org