[WikiEN-l] The London Review of Books on Wikipedia

[David Gerard]

2009/6/16 Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com>:
> On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 4:03 AM, Charles
> Matthews<charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com> wrote:

>> "... encyclopedias have been made better by the advent of the internet,
>> but newspapers have been made worse: the cumulative impact of the
>> readers’ comments that can now be appended online to almost any article
>> tends to diminish most forms of human understanding."

> I don't get it. Reader communities are one of the few ways a newspaper
> reporting a global story can distinguish itself from every other paper
> on the net.


Yes, but actually reading them too often makes one want to spork one's
brain out.

http://ifyoulikeitsomuchwhydontyougolivethere.com/ - "best" of the BBC
"Have Your Say"


- d.