Post 1544

by billso on Saturday, 28 August 2004

Tech: Techdirt dis­cusses one journalist’s poor opin­ion of Wikipedia. Al Fasoldt of the Syra­cuse Post-Standard exco­ri­ated wikis in a col­umn, and later claimed the site is dan­ger­ous. Well, yes, you should take any infor­ma­tion source with a bit of skep­ti­cism. Bias is always present in any infor­ma­tion. Al says so him­self: “The best thing about the Web is also the worst thing: Infor­ma­tion is all over the place. You need to be care­ful about trust­ing what you read.” I agree with those state­ments. Caveat lec­tor. But Al doesn’t know what he’s talk­ing about, and, so far, refuses to change his opinion.

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