[WikiEN-l] Twitterpedia will win

[geni]

2009/5/5 David Gerard <dgerard at 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).



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geni