Nicholas Carr writes an extremely thought-provoking post about the centripetal web, in which Wikipedia and Google are the twin black holes, sucking in website hits to the detriment of smaller sites.
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How I fell in love with Wikipedia (not me personally).
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What do Olivia Newton John, Speedy Gonzales and SPAM have in common? Give up?
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Long article in the ever-excellent NYRB on Wikipedia. (via the also very good Prospect blog)
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Here’s an article from Slate on some of the undemocratic features of web 2.0, and in particular the ever-controversial Wikipedia and Digg.