July 6, 2007
Michael Gorman vs. Web 2.0
Is Wikipedia dangerous? In a much-discussed series of postings on the Encyclopaedia Britannica Online Web site, Michael Gorman argues that the "often-anarchic world of the Internet" is saturating our culture with a "tide of credulity and misinformation" that is rapidly eroding traditional "respect for authenticity and expertise in all scholarly, research, and educational endeavors." At the center of this menace are collaborative online services and user-generated sites like Slashdot, Digg,
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