I feel like the Wikipedia thing has been beaten to death (almost as badly as the blogging v. journalism discussion), but I persist… Jaron Lanier writes about the rise of wiki, meta, and the Hazards of the New Online Collectivism:”it’s important to not lose sight of values just because the question of whether a collective can be smart is so fascinating. Accuracy in a text is not enough. A desirable text is more than a collection of accurate references. It is also an expression of personality.” [via iftfotb]