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Wikipedia and truth, Part 1
I regret having missed the last LITA forum, primarily because I saw that Amy Bruckman would be speaking on the nature of truth in the age of Wikipedia. Her keynote, How Wikipedia Really Works, and What...
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Wikipedia and truth, Part 2: Is truth socially constructed?
In my previous post I was responding to audience tweets from Amy Bruckman’s recent keynote at the 2010 LITA Forum. Again, I do not have access to the original presentation, so I can’t say what Bruckman...
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Wikipedia and the role of the non-expert
SOCRATES: In the matter of just and unjust, fair and foul, good and evil, which are the subjects of our present consultation, ought we to follow the opinion of the many and to fear them; or the opinion...
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Wikipedia, Britannica, and a report due on space
MacGyver. Bart. Doogie. Theo. If you were a boy in middle school in the early ’90s, the playground arguments over who was the coolest guy on television featured some predictable characters. I’ll admit...
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What are ‘experts’ anyway?
by Flickr user Chris Pirillo (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) If you read TheAtlantic.com regularly, then you may have seen a recent article entitled “Wikipedia and the Shifting Definition of ‘Expert‘” by resident...
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