Outdated pop culture will if fact turn out to be the distinguishing
content of wikipedia, if w do it right. this is just the sort of thing
that was almost impossible to do before the internet, and we are
already the best organized single source for most of it.
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 12:40 PM, <WJhonson(a)aol.com> wrote:
In a message dated 3/6/2008 7:22:49 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
refero.relata(a)gmail.com writes:
might actually turn to an encyclopaedia for for
at least the foreseeable future, but pop culture is well, pop. Just a
reminder for everyone that a month's snapshot isn't that helpful....>>
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The advent of the Internet changes all that though.
"Pop" now stays forever. It never vanishes, you just have to search a bit
more perhaps, but it's there, in some old newspaper clipping scanned or some
page updated back in 1996 or whatever. It's still there.
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