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Faulty Encyclopedia?

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This is really old news, but I figured not everybody knew it so I guess I will repeat it here anyway. This is the case that the new collaborative workings of the internet is one-upping an old institution. Wikipedia has, as we all know, some errors in it, they are continously corrected of course. The thing is that some of the competition also has problems, and since it’s printed it’s not that easy to change as Wikipedia

If you visit this page you can read Wikipedia’s list of errors in Encyclopedia Britannica. Some of the errors are a bit bigger than I would have guessed.

Web 2.0 – Scary technology?

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Some of the inspiration behind this blog-post came from this post on www.technewsworld.com.

The reason why I write about this here is that it seems that he and I have experienced some of the same challenges. These issues are also present for all other network based solutions that people like me suggests would “solve” all the world’s problems. If perhaps not expressed as clearly as by the author of that article, some of the risks have to be addressed by all internet-consultants when we propose a new solution.

The problem we see here is based on several conflicting needs felt by the users. In order to explain these issues I need to step back and explain the basic ideas behind internet based solutions.
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