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[StrayPackets · Reconstructing the Ordered Stream] In What Will Kill Citizendium, Nick Carr says something eminently correct: Expertise is a real attribute, not a socially endowed credential.Much of the positive spin given to Wikipedia seems to be seeking to discredit the notion of expertise itself. I’m not sure where or why that hostility arises, but it is dismaying.Tags: Wikipedia, […]
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[Roughtype.com] Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: The death of Wikipedia: Nick, it never fails to astound me how you'll go for the sensational, the controversial, the publicity-seeking headline -- rather than an actual fact-based expose of the truth. I'm sure it helps books sales, speaking invitations and your continued notoriety, but it is painful to watch you continually waste your considerable intellect on taking grains of truth and overgeneralizing and sensationalizing them.
[Finance @ Look C Find.com] Link Dump, And a Request for Book Reviewers: I haven't done a link dump in awhile, so here are some posts you might like to read. > Branded fingernails? I'm not sure I like anything enough to have this done. Ok, maybe Rolling Rock, but not much else. > In you-mean-you-needed-a-study-to-learn-that news, the urge to fit in sways purchase satisfaction. The article does
[Newsome.Org] Wikipedia, Arrington and the Search for... : Mike Arrington has a post over at Techcrunch in which he talks about the launch of Wikipedia competitor, Citizendium. In this post, he is critical of Wikipedia for all sorts of things: political edits, attacking people who correct mistakes and errors in the Techcrunch listing.
[michaelzimmer.org] Sanger to Fork Wikipedia into Citizendium: The Citizendium will take all of Wikipedia’s current articles (allowed under the rules of the GNU Free Documentation License) and edit them under a new model that differs substantially from the model used by what Sanger calls the “arguably dysfunctional” Wikipedia community.
[weaverluke] The Citizendium: Tools will no doubt be written that will allow users to compare the differences between the Wikipedia article and the Citizendium article side-by-side. In addition, of course, people will be able to start brand new articles on topics Wikipedia has not yet covered.Embracing and selectively re-sculpting the rich materials of Wikipedia—cunning indeed.
[IdeaFestival] Drafting knowledge: Thedeletionists are absolutists. They believe that some subjects aresimply more significant than others, that absolute distinctions can andshould be drawn among different kinds of knowledge.
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