Print journalism is so passe. Once Microsoft has market coverage for
their "whole house computer" we won't need to take anything into the
bathroom to read anymore.
Do you surf on your ipod while on the toilet? 45% of readers say ....
-----Original Message-----
From: David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>
To: charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com; English Wikipedia
<wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Tue, Aug 18, 2009 3:33 pm
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia reaches 3 millionth article
2009/8/18 Charles Matthews <charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com>om>:
Err ... it's Wikipedia's fault if hurried
journalists today do nothing
but research on it and misinterpret what they find? Puh-lease. To get
from that to "It was formally launched on January 15 in 2001 by Ward
Cunningham and Richard Stallman" you need to do plenty of
miscomprehension exercises. Remember: hacks get _paid_ to do this
work,
often quite large sums, and (in the UK) are supposed
to spend time
learning the importance of getting the facts straight. Not
copying-and-pasting, and then mangling the sense. They have subeditors
who are _paid_ to do the mangling.
This is why I have no fear whatsoever of the Associated Press's plans
to compete directly with Wikipedia.
- d.
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