Blogging on Britannica
by rrusczyk, Jun 20, 2007, 5:15 PM
I've been invited to blog on the Britannica blog. Here are the few posts I've put up so far. I'll probably cross-post the more interesting ones here as I continue.
A few interesting things I've noticed so far: there's much more commentary on my posts about education than the ones about math (no surprise). Also, there's a series of recent posts on the blog as a whole about Web 2.0 in which much of the posts decry the loss of status of experts (or, conversely, the rise in status of people without credentials). Indeed, this is a danger of the internet, but as long as sensible users realize this (for example, look at the math pages on wikipedia - they're not infrequently self-contradictory, despite the loads of interesting information there), I think the benefits outweigh the costs.
Of course, the most ironic part of the Web 2.0 discussion and the prevailing slant of these posts is the 'consider the source' message these people offer - on the Britannica blog. Consider the source, indeed
A few interesting things I've noticed so far: there's much more commentary on my posts about education than the ones about math (no surprise). Also, there's a series of recent posts on the blog as a whole about Web 2.0 in which much of the posts decry the loss of status of experts (or, conversely, the rise in status of people without credentials). Indeed, this is a danger of the internet, but as long as sensible users realize this (for example, look at the math pages on wikipedia - they're not infrequently self-contradictory, despite the loads of interesting information there), I think the benefits outweigh the costs.
Of course, the most ironic part of the Web 2.0 discussion and the prevailing slant of these posts is the 'consider the source' message these people offer - on the Britannica blog. Consider the source, indeed
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