Is Wikipedia an 'expert' site?

Know it all: Can Wikipedia Conquor Expertise?'http://tinyurl.com/gckodExcerpt:On March 1st, Wikipedia, the online interactive encyclopedia, hit the million-articles mark, with an entry on Jordanhill, a railway station in suburban Glasgow. Its author, Ewan MacDonald, posted a single sentence about the station at 11 P.M., local time; over the next twenty-four hours, the entry was edited more than four hundred times, by dozens of people.

Is Wikipedia an 'expert' site?

Know it all: Can Wikipedia Conquor Expertise?'http://tinyurl.com/gckodExcerpt:On March 1st, Wikipedia, the online interactive encyclopedia, hit the million-articles mark, with an entry on Jordanhill, a railway station in suburban Glasgow. Its author, Ewan MacDonald, posted a single sentence about the station at 11 P.M., local time; over the next twenty-four hours, the entry was edited more than four hundred times, by dozens of people.

hello, may I help you?

Inquiring Minds at the LibraryTuesday, August 22, 2006; Page A14What Yahoo Inc. Vice President Eckart Walther refers to as the "next generation of search" techniques ["Web Searches Go Low-Tech: You Ask, a Person Answers," front page, Aug. 16] has been alive and well in our nation's libraries for more than a century. Reference librarians in our public and academic libraries answer nearly 8 million questions every week in person, on the phone, and online via e-mail, instant messaging, wikis and other technologies.In fact, the number of times I hear "I tried to find this on the Internet, but . .

hello, may I help you?

Inquiring Minds at the LibraryTuesday, August 22, 2006; Page A14What Yahoo Inc. Vice President Eckart Walther refers to as the "next generation of search" techniques ["Web Searches Go Low-Tech: You Ask, a Person Answers," front page, Aug. 16] has been alive and well in our nation's libraries for more than a century. Reference librarians in our public and academic libraries answer nearly 8 million questions every week in person, on the phone, and online via e-mail, instant messaging, wikis and other technologies.In fact, the number of times I hear "I tried to find this on the Internet, but . .

behind the times, baby

behind the times, baby

Friday I went to this conference where the keynote speaker (Dr. Maddeus) essentially said that all of the folks in the audience were out of the loop and if we didn’t get with the technology we were going to miss the boat (!!). Anyhow, he started out the presentation with some very over the top Bill-n-Ted speak, to which I leaned over to K, and said, ‘dude, this is not going to be most excellent’ (which I meant in a very sarcastic way!)

behind the times, baby

behind the times, baby

Friday I went to this conference where the keynote speaker (Dr. Maddeus) essentially said that all of the folks in the audience were out of the loop and if we didn’t get with the technology we were going to miss the boat (!!). Anyhow, he started out the presentation with some very over the top Bill-n-Ted speak, to which I leaned over to K, and said, ‘dude, this is not going to be most excellent’ (which I meant in a very sarcastic way!)

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