Look it up: Wikipedia turns 10
Aljazeera.net

As Wikipedia celebrates its 10th year, the question remains: Should you trust what you read on the user-powered site? Forget that old tagline...

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Hey, well done Al-Jazeera, this is actually a pretty good article. Well-researched, with some worthwhile links I had not seen before.

"A" for content, "C" for spelling.

(Sorry for not quoting the original post, I got an error message saying it is not permitted to link to that website.)

Hadn'r seen this oner before:

Al Jazeera? I don't believe they're blacklisted here... heck, do we even have a blacklist? I should probably check that.

It's unfortunate that we can't this kind of decent-quality analysis from US/UK-based online news sites anymore, at least not on a regular basis.

And I see they're still touting this "we need more women" line, and pointing at their so-called "campus ambassador program" as if it's going to have any effect on their gender disparity whatsoever. I suppose what people like myself view as "lazy journalism" is often nothing more than an unwillingness on the part of reporters and their editors to point out the inherent absurdity of the things people say, or even make any attempt to analyze those things as such... I wonder if the owners of these sites have done studies of how long or detailed a typical web-news piece can be before people click elsewhere?

And do AlJazeera-in-English readers have longer attention spans than most people?

Looks like it. Anyone aware of a better article in this deluge of (self-)congratulatory fluff?

Most of the stuff that appears on Examiner.com under my byline is better.

<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Happy birthday, [b]Wikipedia[/b]
Kipp Report
The user-edited encyclopedia Wikipedia turned 10 years old on Saturday. But despite its success, as Al Jazeera's Tarek Bazley reports, it is not without its ...



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