I’ve been addicted to Wikipedia lately. No, the site is nothing new, but my addiction is. It’s like going to school again. I love it.
An interesting fact about Wikipedia: WNYC (my favorite radio station) did a story on it maybe six months ago, and interviewed the founders. While talking about what happens when erroneous information is posted, the founders said they recently did a study on how long the erroneous information stays up there before being corrected: on average, erroneous information only remains on the site for two minutes. Two minutes. That’s damn impressive.
Recent Wikipedia reads:
Dreamachine
Brion Gysin
Edward R. Murrow
The Fourth Estate
Supply-side Economics