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[Bloggersblog.com] Bloggers Blog: Ken Lay's Death Confuses Wikipedia: Today's story about Former Enron CEO Ken Lay's death from a heart attack has been discussed in numerous blogs. Ken Lay has been one of today's top searches on Technorati today along with North Korea, the World Cup and Clay Aiken.
[Cyberjournalist.net] Ken Lay's death prompts confusion on Wikipedia - CyberJournalist ...: TOOLS GREAT WORK GALLERY THE WEBLOG BLOG CITIZEN MEDIA MONITOR .0 comments about 'Ken Lay's death prompts confusion on Wikipedia'
[News.com.com] Ken Lay's death prompts confusion on Wikipedia | CNET News.com: Officials at Wikipedia did not immediately return phone and e-mail requests for comment. Its Web site warns users that "newer articles may still contain significant misinformation, unencyclopedic content or vandalism." Wikipedia says it has 13,000 active writers and editors.
[Acrlblog.org] ACRLog » Blog Archive » Wikipedia in the News: Rosenzweig’s piece discusses the differences between professional historians and amateur wikipedists, Wikipedia’s obsession with Neutral Point of View (NPOV), and compares Wikipedia to Microsoft’s Encarta and the American National Biography Online. Rosenzweig points out that it’s not only accuracy that is problematic for Wikipedia (a problem for all encyclopedias), but poor writing and lack of scholarly subtlety and nuance.
[Andrewlih.com] Andrew Lih » Blog Archive » Wikipedia’s Ken Lay problem?: Andrew Lih » Blog Archive » Washington Post Wikipedia analysis July 8th, 2006 19:48. As opposed to the ] article “controversy” that Reuters .
[Bring it On!] Long Overdue Round-Up: Dymaxion World ”” Maybe this is the natural outcome of war - it’s hard to kill lots of people unless you learn to hate them, I guess. The Next Left ”” Even the right-wing Republican Post is questioning Ken Lays death.
[NewsBusters.org | Exposing Liberal Media Bias] Wikipedia, Ken Lay, and the Problem of... : Once again, politics trumped though. They needed to get the biggest and the richest corporate evil guy so they made a deal with the mastermind behind it and produced the heads of the biggest richest guys who may or may not have figured out the scheme. There is no doubt that both Skilling and Lay did things that they need to be punished for - like the insider trading aspect just before the collapse, but to put them in jail for life doesn't really serve anyone. Taking away every bit of their wealth I would have no problem with, or even having 75% of all any future earnings taken away.
[Intelligent Discontent] The Mainstream Media: Wrong on the Wikipedia,... : Frank Ahrens of the Washington Post wrote an article this weekend criticizing the wikipedia for its handling of the death of Ken Lay, arguing the same tired trope that has been played out again and again: Unlike, say, the Encyclopedia Britannica, Wikipedia has no formal peer review for its articles. They may be written by experts or insane crazy
[The Technology Liberation Front] Wikipedia, Whipping Boy: Today brings a strange WaPo article on the supposed weakness of Wikipedia because several of the original contributions on Ken Lay after his death were inaccurate, even intentionally so. The article was corrected within a few days of his death, and that, WaPo would have us believe, is a bad thing - better to not have the article at all, than to have it within a matter of days, I suppose.
[robhyndman.com] The Strength of Wikipedia: Today brings a strange WaPo article on the supposed weakness of Wikipedia because several of the original contributions on Ken Lay after his death were inaccurate, even intentionally so. The article was corrected within a few days of his death, and that, WaPo would have us believe, is a bad thing - better to not have the article at all, than to have it within a matter of days, I suppose.
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