BW Online | August 11, 2004 | Howard Rheingold’s Latest Connection:
The divide increasingly is not so much between those who have and those who don’t, but those who know how to use what they have and those who don’t.
hlr makes a good argument for Wikipedia, among other things: apropos of that, Ed Felten compared Wikipedia to the venerable Brittanica. Brittanica wins — for now. Both articles are instructive. I love Wikipedia: it’s my start page, and I learn something every time it loads. And, yes, I have edited a couple of articles, and rather than seeing that as a flaw that it has errors, I see it as an asset that I can fix them.