http://newth.net/eirik/2008/03/08/wishful-tinking-30/ Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:57:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://newth.net/eirik/2008/03/08/wishful-tinking-30/#comment-6415 Eirik Sun, 09 Mar 2008 09:27:44 +0000 http://newth.net/eirik/2008/03/08/wishful-tinking-30/#comment-6415 Karl Arthur: Point taken. It's not like we don't use lot of professionally produced content already (in my line of work, nasa.gov is an excellent source of information). Or that user-generated content excludes professional content. More and more I find myself using Wikipedia's reference section as a source of links to peer-reviewed content, for instance. The perceived conflict between user- and peer-generated content makes for an tantalizing journalistic angle, but for most of us it probably doesn't exist at all. Karl Arthur: Point taken. It’s not like we don’t use lot of professionally produced content already (in my line of work, nasa.gov is an excellent source of information). Or that user-generated content excludes professional content. More and more I find myself using Wikipedia’s reference section as a source of links to peer-reviewed content, for instance. The perceived conflict between user- and peer-generated content makes for an tantalizing journalistic angle, but for most of us it probably doesn’t exist at all.

]]> http://newth.net/eirik/2008/03/08/wishful-tinking-30/#comment-6413 Karl Arthur Sun, 09 Mar 2008 00:32:21 +0000 http://newth.net/eirik/2008/03/08/wishful-tinking-30/#comment-6413 What seems really odd is that the Newsweek article doesn't mention <a href="http://www.citizendium.org" rel="nofollow">Citizendium, </a>Wikipedia co-founder and Professor of Philosophy at Ohio University, <a href="http://larrysanger.org" rel="nofollow">Larry Sanger's </a> new effort to combine the best of the two worlds in a peer-produced encyclopedia with editorial influence by experts. So far it's not anywhere close to being comparable in size to its better known fore-runner, but it seems to be growing pretty fast, and it's certainly thinking in a long perspective. What seems really odd is that the Newsweek article doesn’t mention Citizendium, Wikipedia co-founder and Professor of Philosophy at Ohio University, Larry Sanger’s new effort to combine the best of the two worlds in a peer-produced encyclopedia with editorial influence by experts. So far it’s not anywhere close to being comparable in size to its better known fore-runner, but it seems to be growing pretty fast, and it’s certainly thinking in a long perspective.

]]> http://newth.net/eirik/2008/03/08/wishful-tinking-30/#comment-6411 Espen Sat, 08 Mar 2008 16:00:40 +0000 http://newth.net/eirik/2008/03/08/wishful-tinking-30/#comment-6411 Gee, Eirik, why don't you tell us how you <i>really</i> feel.... I tried mahalo just now, and the top entry was "# Featured: Amy Winehouse shocks friends by snorting vodka at club", which in my book doesn't even sound like news, much less quality. On the other hand, a tabbed interface to all the other search engines was useful. Especially when the experts aren't around. Gee, Eirik, why don’t you tell us how you really feel…. I tried mahalo just now, and the top entry was “#
Featured: Amy Winehouse shocks friends by snorting vodka at club”, which in my book doesn’t even sound like news, much less quality. On the other hand, a tabbed interface to all the other search engines was useful. Especially when the experts aren’t around.

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