Nicholson Baker has penned a comprehensive, if tongue in cheek, history of the charms of Wikipedia in the New York Review of Books this month: charting its journey from the beautiful idea a collective, not-for-profit resource, to the scourge of deletionists and the onset of wiki-vandalism. A must-read for diligent truth-crusaders the world over.
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- Prospect Public Intellectual 2008 Top Trumps
Recent Comments
- Walkers on Power’s world: walkers of the world, unite!
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- Pages tagged "impartial" on FTSE: A Thousand Points Further To Fall
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- Dining Tables on Writing the nation
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- schoollife on Primary school reforms
- Anders Knutsson on The art bubble finally bursts
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- Master Mind Power In 9 Weeks. | 7Wins.eu on Prospect online this week
- Books & Magazine Blog » Archive » Power’s world: Palestine and the war of civilisations at First … on Power’s world: Palestine and the war of civilisations
- Alexander Fiske-Harrison on Power’s world: Palestine and the war of civilisations
- Norm Wheatley on Prospect’s new issue: what comes next?
- Steve Kay on Jean Charles de Menezes: From A Logical Point of View
Blogroll
- 3quarksdaily
- British Psychological Society research digest
- Crooked Timber
- Finance & Economics
- Foreign Policy passport
- France Profonde
- Freakonomics blog
- Fugitive Peace—Gideon Lichfield
- Gauche—Paul Anderson
- Gideon Rachman
- Guido Fawkes
- Happiness and Public Policy
- Harry’s Place
- Marginal Revolution
- Normblog
- Oliver Kamm
- Overcoming bias
- Political Betting
- Pootergeek
- Potlatch—William Davies
- Prospect magazine homepage
- The Economist—Free Exchange
- The Guardian Comment is Free
- The Spectator—Coffee House
- The Times—Comment central
- The Virtual Stoa

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