Wednesday, November 02, 2005

NPR: Wikipedia, Open Source and the Future of the Web

I've just started listening to the webcast from today's Talk of the Nation, featuring Chris Anderson (Editor-in chief of Wired and long tail proponent), Jimmy Wales (founder of Wikipedia), and Nicholas Carr (a major critic of IT). So far, so good. Here's the show's summary:

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?