http://chrislott.org/story/poetic-rhetoric-and-wikipedia/ Musings on education, techology, and life.. Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:23:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://chrislott.org/story/poetic-rhetoric-and-wikipedia/comment-page-1/#comment-453 beau Sat, 21 Jan 2006 16:32:36 +0000 http://www.chrislott.org/2006/01/20/poetic-rhetoric-and-wikipedia/#comment-453 This is an important one, and I'll revisit it at length I reckon, but the short answer goes: When we can stop devoting so much of our resources to creating, reproducing and distributing the Funk-and-Wagnalls level information we will have that much more to devote to truly spectacular feats of specialization. In a word, wikipedia, and its spiritual brethren to come, will make for more net rigor, not less. $.02 This is an important one, and I’ll revisit it at length I reckon, but the short answer goes: When we can stop devoting so much of our resources to creating, reproducing and distributing the Funk-and-Wagnalls level information we will have that much more to devote to truly spectacular feats of specialization. In a word, wikipedia, and its spiritual brethren to come, will make for more net rigor, not less. $.02

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