j’s scratchpad

Wikipedia turned 6 years old last Monday.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia

However, there was an article in Dec 5 issue of Information Week that “Wikipedia will fail in four years, crushed under the weight of an automated assault by marketers and others seeking online traffic”
according to a law professor.

http://tinyurl.com/2gn6cl

Nicholas Carr of Rough Type has a posting called “Is Wikipedia a black hole?”. It’s about Wikipedia making links invisible to search engines like Google.

http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2007/01/is_wikipedia_a.php

Steve Rubel of Micro Persuasion has a posting called “The Wikipedia threat to the Google Empire.”

http://www.micropersuasion.com/2007/01/wikipedia_threa.html

Also Wikipedia has implemented “cascading protection” against “indirect” vandalism of the main page.

http://tinyurl.com/3cuez3

links via:

What I learned today library blog by Nicole Engard

http://web2learning.net/

Micro Persuasion:

http://www.micropersuasion.com/

By Rich

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