[Web4lib] WIKIPEDIA is now politically correct to use as areference resource

Mike McDermott mmcderm2 at bowdoin.edu
Mon Dec 10 11:27:09 EST 2007


>  Brockhaus, the encyclopedia, are pissed off because the
>  comparison was made against their online edition, which only
>  has a fraction of the print edition.
>
There is probably a lesson about web-based business models here, in
regards to offering a dumbed-down product on the web, and then taking
offense when you are judged by it.

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Mike McDermott
Bowdoin College Library
3000 College Station, Brunswick, ME 04011-8421
(207) 725-3856


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