WE've written a great deal on Open Source recently, both on the blog and also in this year's Global Ideas Book, including the rise and rise of Wikipedia. But news of it possibly publishing a print version has cuased a bit of a furore. The best piece I have found on it is on Corante's Many 2 Many blog, here: Wikipedia Reputation and the Wemedia project.
Essentially, the question posed is this: has open source gone too far when we could be educating our children with an encyclopaedia put together without the necessary checks and balances.....or is that exactly the point and shows a great way forward for the future? I'm torn between my traditional side and my groovy, non-narrow-minded side.......
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