An interesting Nicholson Baker piece on Wikipedia from the
New York Review of Books. An excerpt:
"Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It's
fact-encirclingly huge, and it's idiosyncratic, careful,
messy, funny, shocking, and full of simmering
controversies—and it's free, and it's fast. In a few seconds
you can look up, for instance, "Diogenes of
Sinope," or "turnip," or "Crazy
Eddie," or "Bagoas," or "quadratic
formula," or "Bristol Beaufighter," or
"squeegee," or "Sanford B. Dole," and
you'll have knowledge you didn't have before. It's like some
vast aerial city with people walking briskly to and fro on
catwalks, carrying picnic baskets full of nutritious
snacks."
http://www.nybo
oks.com/articles/21131
Bernie Sloan
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