January 19, 2007

Confessions of a journo-elitist | Perspectives | CNET News.com

Confessions of a journo-elitist | Perspectives | CNET News.com

A rational perspective by Cooper in this piece. He is concerned that the quality of group created outputs such as Wikipedia and other efforts, for example, the group publishing without keen editorial oversight, of a a magazine may migrate toward mediocrity rather than high quality.

He may be right, but I think the key is the relative permanence of the information content, e.g., an encyclopedia vs a daily of weekly news magazine. I think Wkipedia will tend toward higher quality over time because people have the time to get it right and make it better.

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