I recently had the opportunity to sit down for a lengthy conversation about Web 2.0 with Adobe's technical evangelist, Duane Nickull, who has some interesting perspectives on the topic. Tim O'Reilly famously defined Web 2.0 as a set of "design patterns an
There's been plenty of debate over the past couple of years about the merits of Wikipedia, generally focusing on how "trustworthy" the site is because of its anonymous contributors and lack of professional editorial review.
Something Awful has a flat out hilarious (if somewhat long in the introduction) article on the nerd bias of wikipedia. The point isn’t to say that one article or another on Wikipedia has factual inaccuracies, but rather to show how much more attention certain topics get than others.
For far too long now, we have been watching the people in charge of Wikipedia slowly destroy what could have been something wonderful. The freedoms they promote on their website and to the media are false. Wikipedia is not a free and open encyclopedia that anyone can edit. It is not the sum of all human knowledge, and the person in charge wants to keep it that way.