Ironic secret: I don’t really like most wikis, though that’s probably putting it too strongly. Ironic because I love both Wikipedia (and, especially, collabularies), but I grit my teeth pretty much every time I hear somebody suggest we need another wiki.
Putting it tersely: if wikis are so great, why do we need more than one [...]
Posted April 24, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: community, critical mass, rant, wiki, wikipedia, wikis. 9 Comments.
Arguments about Wikipedia’s value and authority will rage for quite a while, but it’s interesting to see where the lines are being drawn.
On the one had we’ve got a 12 year-old pointing out errors in Encyclopaedia Britannica (via Many2Many) and now on the other side we’ve got John Seigenthaler, a former editorial page editor at [...]
Posted December 5, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Politics & Controversy. Tags: blog, bloggers, blogs, communities, community, editor, editorial, editorial control, fear, findability, forbes, google economy, John Seigenthaler, libel, moderation, opinion, Seigenthaler, slander, social, social software, usa today, wiki, wikipedia. 7 Comments.
