On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Sam Blacketer < sam.blacketer@googlemail.com> wrote:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/mar/16/internet-copyright-lawca... my eye because of its rather alarming headline. However it's about copyright law; the headline refers to this paragraph:
In a second thought experiment, imagine that it's five years ago and you are responsible for developing the most comprehensive and up-to-the-minute encyclopedia the world has ever seen. One strategy is to create a global company, employ the brightest people available, check every fact produced, and implement the most rigorous editorial controls. A second option is to "just create a website and let anybody put up anything". Again, we'd mostly have opted for the first strategy, and the world wouldn't have Wikipedia< http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/apr/10/wikipedia.internet%3E .
I might quibble with the description "let anybody put up anything" but the author makes an interesting point.
-- Sam Blacketer
Interesting that it's in quotes. Is it a quotation, or were the quotation marks used improperly?