[Sig-bwp] NPR: Wikipedia, Open Source and the Future of the Web

[Gerry Mckiernan]

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Colleagues/

A *Great* NPR TOTN program on Wikipedia !

/Gerry 

Gerry McKiernan
Science and Technology Librarian 
Iowa State University Library 
Ames IA 50011

Talk of the Nation, November 2, 2005 · A new wave of Internet sites, like Wikipedia, invite their users to interact and contribute facts and opinion and edit each other. It's a more democratic way to present information. But is it more accurate?

[ http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4986453 ]

Guests: 

Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired magazine

Jimmy Wales, founder of the Wikimedia Foundation

Nicholas Carr, freelance business and technology writer; former executive editor of The Harvard Business Review; author of the book, Does IT Matter? Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage