2009/5/5 David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com:
http://www.lisnews.org/encyclopedic_knowledge_then_vs_now
Nice comment on this article:
"Some say that all software loaded on a local machine will soon be obsolete, so it's not a problem with Encarta, but with technology. I wonder if Wikipedia will be here 10 years from now, with it's long-winded entries, when Twitterpedia tells me everything I need to know in 140 characters or less. You should read the Twitterpedia version of the Peloponnesian War. Soon, that's all we'll be able to comprehend, 140 characters or less.
"(okay, there is no Twitterpedia,... not a real one, anyway.)"
So. Who's going to start Twitterpedia?
- d.
Effectively thats what the opening sentences of wikipedia articles should already be (with the opening paras being the summery wikipedia).