The Idea of Reference
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The Idea of Reference
globalpolitician.com – Aug 31, 2007
A collaborative effort of contributors and editors across time and space it bloated into hundreds of thousands of articles on subjects both deserving and risible. Anyone with a connection to the Internet and a browser can edit the Wikipedia regardless of his or her qualifications to do so. Events in 2005-6 exposed the underbelly and weaknesses of this mammoth enterprise. Entries are routinely vandalized libel and falsities often find their way into existing articles as a way to settle scores manipulate public opinion or express outrage… Events in 2005-6 exposed the underbelly and weaknesses of this mammoth enterprise. Entries are routinely vandalized libel and falsities often find their way into existing articles as a way to settle scores manipulate public opinion or express outrage. The prestigious magazine “Nature” studied Wikipedia articles on the sciences and found them similar in quality to peer reviewed and edited encyclopedias. Indeed the problems cluster around the entries that deal with the softer edges of the human experience (where everyone feels qualified to comment and edit): the social “sciences” the humanities arts and entertainment politics current affairs celebrities and the like. It is there that “edit wars” and thrashing are most ripe. The result is that nigh close to 90% of the Wikipedia contain highly dubious material and attract the least qualified “experts” and “editors”. This seems to prove the point that the gaining and preservation of knowledge should not be subjected to a democratic process (or as in the Wikipedia’s case mob rule).
Blog haters have little idea what they rage against
Hindu – Aug 31, 2007
From the dawn of blogging it’s been tempting for established professionals to reject blogging as trivial and unreliable. Epitomising this stance most recently is Tom Wolfe — who in a brief essay accompanying the Wall Street Journal’s blog birthday celebration dismissed the blogosphere as “a universe of rumours. ” To support this charge he cited an inaccuracy in Wikipedia’s entry about himself. f course the online encyclopaedia is not a blog at all. But critics such as Mr. Wolfe can’t be bothered making distinctions. He admitted that Wikipedia isn’t “strictly a blog” but claimed it “shares the genre’s characteristics” and dismissed a universe of blogs on the basis of a single Wikipedia inaccuracy — which was naturally immediately corrected… But critics such as Mr. Wolfe can’t be bothered making distinctions. He admitted that Wikipedia isn’t “strictly a blog” but claimed it “shares the genre’s characteristics” and dismissed a universe of blogs on the basis of a single Wikipedia inaccuracy — which was naturally immediately corrected. If it’s online apparently it’s all the same and all worthless. Most journalists’ understanding of the nature of blogging has been circumscribed by a focus on how it might affect our profession. We write about whether blogging can be journalism we worry about whether bloggers can or will replace journalists and we miss the real stories. Here’s one example.
pinion: Letter – Wiki ethics need to be made more clear.
Free with registration – PR Week – AccessMyLibrary.com – Aug 31, 2007
–>CPYRIGHT 2007 Haymarket Business Publications Ltd. I feel your article on Wikipedia and the issues around content edits (PRWeek 24 August) barely scratched the surface of the broader debate. 3 million pages with more than 10000 edits a day. With such high traffic the issue of ethics – who should be allowed to.
Microsoft Allegedly Bullies and Bribes to Make ffice an International…
Wired News – Aug 31, 2007
The first hit is the. The second hit is for a website urging members of national voting boards to reject.
Interview: Zombie offers a few new tricks treats
Minneapolis Star-Tribune – Minneapolis Star Tribune – Aug 31, 2007
Is that accurate?A That’s just more Internet [nonsense]. I hate the Internet. Like someone wrote on Wikipedia that I’m remaking “Bonnie and Clyde. ” f course I’m not. But I’ve already answered 10 questions about it today and it’s 100 percent nonsense. It becomes a headache. It must be hard to be a journalist with that.
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