AboutC. Brian Smith, information and knowledge seeker, treads water and still attempts to throw you a lifepreserver in the information maelstrom, highlighting developments in the arena of searching and finding on the Web. He writes for CyberSkeptic's Guide to Internet Research. Recent Posts:Archives:
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Perennial SearcherMarch 17, 2008 The Battle for Wikipedia’s SoulInteresting piece from The Economist about the conflicting editorial philosophies behind a user-generated encyclopedia. To include or exclude? That is the question. There’s also mention of Google’s knoll project (here’s a screenshot of it) and how it uses social ranking and popularity to push articles/entries to the forefront. Kind of like Digg for encyclopedias? No Comments »RSS feed for comments on this post. Leave a comment
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