Andrew Gray wrote:
"Like Boiling a Frog", David Runciman. http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n10/runc01_.html
From the last issue of the London Review of Books, a long and chewy
article about Wikipedia; generally positive, though it draws attention to the problems of writing quality and "recentism". There's a review of Andrew Lih's book buried somewhere in it, too...
"... encyclopedias have been made better by the advent of the internet, but newspapers have been made worse: the cumulative impact of the readersÂ’ comments that can now be appended online to almost any article tends to diminish most forms of human understanding."
Worth reading for that insight alone.
Charles
Imagine what would happen if the readers could actually get at the articles.
Fred