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17 Jan 08
Emma Coonan"Academic libraries, which in earlier days provided a service,
have outsourced themselves as bouncers to publishers like Reed-Elsevier;
their principal job, in the digital realm, is to prevent interested
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18 Jul 07
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17 Jul 07
David JenningsPart of a debate about authority, expertise and new media filters.
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Critically, this expansion of freedom has not undermined any of the absolute advantages of expertise; the virtues of mastery remain as they were. What has happened is that the relative advantages of expertise are in precipitous decline. Experts the world over have been shocked to discover that they were consulted not as a direct result of their expertise, but often as a secondary effect — the apparatus of credentialing made finding experts easier than finding amateurs, even when the amateurs knew the same things as the experts.
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16 Jul 07
Adam GurriA response to yet another attack on the culture of Web 2.0.
Clay Shirky Britannica blog web 2.0 old revolutions new good bad wikipedia blogging printing gatekeeper information theory open source
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16 Jun 07
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15 Jun 07
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defense of incumbent stewards of knowledge against attenuation of their erstwhile roles.
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When reproduction, distribution, and findability were all hard, as they were for the last five hundred years, we needed specialists to undertake those jobs, and we properly venerated them for the service they performed. Now those tasks are simpler, and the earlier roles have instead become obstacles to direct access.
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Experts the world over have been shocked to discover that they were consulted not as a direct result of their expertise, but often as a secondary effect — the apparatus of credentialing made finding experts easier than finding amateurs, even when the amateurs knew the same things as the experts.
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Wikipedia is the product not of collectivism but of unending argumentation; the corpus grows not from harmonious thought but from constant scrutiny and emendation.
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