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Open Everything

By Marc Schulman | Related entries in News

A very interesting article by Cass Sunstein on wikis in the Washington Post is available here.

This entry was posted on Saturday, February 24th, 2007 and is filed under News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

3 Responses to “Open Everything”

bob in fl Says:
February 24th, 2007 at 12:21 pm
“In the past year, Wikipedia . . . has been cited in judicial opinions 4 times as often as the Encyclopedia Britannica in judicial opinions…”

What the **** are judges thinking in referring to ANY encyclopedias in judicial opinions? These decisions are supposed to be made from legitimately published law journals & reference books. And how can they justify citing Wikipedia when anyone can post false info or edit real info, making it the least reliable of all references?

I hope this is a prejudiced opinion, which demands a retraction in every blog, website, or traditional publication where it has been published. Oh, I forgot. The author got the information from Wikipedia. So Marc, what is your excuse?

If I ever have to face a judge, I guess my best defense is to edit the appropriate entry in Wikipadia & pray the judge doesn’t rely on legitimate sources.
Marc Schulman Says:
February 24th, 2007 at 12:54 pm
Excuse for what? For saying it was an interesting article?
bob in fl Says:
February 24th, 2007 at 10:52 pm
You are right. You only posted the article without comment. My apologie for my caustic statement about you.

I found it a very interesting article, but it seems readers don’t find it so. There have been no comments on the original article & only one here all day. Where did everyone else go?

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