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[Roughtype.com] Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: The death of Wikipedia: But, as eWeek's Steven Vaughan-Nichols recently observed, "Wikipedia hasn't been a real 'wiki' where anyone can write and edit for quite a while now." A few months ago, in the wake of controversies about the quality and reliability of the free encyclopedia's content, the Wikipedian powers-that-be - its "administrators" - abandoned the work's founding ideal of being the "ULTIMATE 'open' format" and tightened the restrictions on editing. In addition to banning some contributors from the site, the administrators adopted an "official policy" of what they called, in good Orwellian fashion, "semi-protection" to prevent "vandals" (also known as people) from messing with their open encyclopedia.
[Swmcdm.blogspot.com] SW MCDM Blog: I’ve been using this for school and any random Joe can write something?!” Not until describing how it could mean people are likely to edit out misinformation, did my friend see some restored benefit in Wikipedia. Gilmore quotes a Wikipedia founder defending its trustworthy, neutral tone “The only way you can write something that survives is that someone who’s your diametrical opposite can agree with it (149).” This is definitely an example of a format where the audience is more engaged;
[Informationweek.com] InformationWeek | Business Innovation Powered By Technology: Microsoft's claim that it invented the iPod would be really funny if it weren't so sad. In fact, it is exactly what is wrong with issuing patents for high-tech ideas: Microsoft, a company that did absolutely zero to put an iPod in your pocket, is getting set to try to grab the profits from the company that actually made the effort, Apple.
[Enkerli.wordpress.com] Wikipedia « Disparate: It’s really not that hard to visualize the completed picture of a Web 2.1 puzzle merging most of the advantages from the main Web 2.0 players: Facebook meets YouTube, Wikipedia meets WordPress, PodShow meets Digg, Flickr meets SecondLife… Smaller players like Moodle and GarageBand are likely to have a huge impact in the long run, but the first steps have more to do with the biggest pieces of the puzzle.
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