http://enterpriseonline.com/clays_blog/2009/02/18/wikidashboard-from-parc/ Molesting the Noosphere Wed, 21 Dec 2011 09:44:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://enterpriseonline.com/clays_blog/2009/02/18/wikidashboard-from-parc/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Huck Sun, 01 Mar 2009 02:48:42 +0000 http://enterpriseonline.com/clays_blog/?p=175#comment-2 Hey, Clay - I may be an academic who goes against the grain, but I've always found Wikipedia to be a pretty darn good and accurate resource. Sure, it doesn't have the benefit of verifiable academic peer review, but I've always found entries that I've looked into that are relevant to my own academic field to be quite solid. I think most academics don't like it because it represents a loss of control over information over which the "guild" of Ph.D.s claims proprietorship. I think that claim is bunk and is rife with self-important elitism. The fact is that academics can just as readily edit Wikipedia as anyone else, so why would they complain when they can always throw their expertise into the ring. Frankly, I think it's great that Wikipedia decentralizes knowledge away from the academy. On another completely unrelated note, I heard that the McGoverns are leaving for Bush-land. I wish you all well, but we'll miss you here. Brush up on your Spanish. Peace, mi amigo. Hey, Clay – I may be an academic who goes against the grain, but I’ve always found Wikipedia to be a pretty darn good and accurate resource. Sure, it doesn’t have the benefit of verifiable academic peer review, but I’ve always found entries that I’ve looked into that are relevant to my own academic field to be quite solid. I think most academics don’t like it because it represents a loss of control over information over which the “guild” of Ph.D.s claims proprietorship. I think that claim is bunk and is rife with self-important elitism. The fact is that academics can just as readily edit Wikipedia as anyone else, so why would they complain when they can always throw their expertise into the ring. Frankly, I think it’s great that Wikipedia decentralizes knowledge away from the academy. On another completely unrelated note, I heard that the McGoverns are leaving for Bush-land. I wish you all well, but we’ll miss you here. Brush up on your Spanish. Peace, mi amigo.

]]> http://enterpriseonline.com/clays_blog/2009/02/18/wikidashboard-from-parc/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Clay Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:44:37 +0000 http://enterpriseonline.com/clays_blog/?p=175#comment-3 Hey Jimmy, I have to agree with you. I definitely believe that a good deal of the resistance is generated by the newness of the knowledge paradigm we're dealing with in Wikipedia. At this point, we're still at the early adopter stage with this set of tools in higher education. And you know what they say about pioneers: "They often end up with arrows in their backs." Hey Jimmy, I have to agree with you. I definitely believe that a good deal of the resistance is generated by the newness of the knowledge paradigm we’re dealing with in Wikipedia. At this point, we’re still at the early adopter stage with this set of tools in higher education. And you know what they say about pioneers: “They often end up with arrows in their backs.”

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