Wikipedia Brown and the Case of the Half-Baked Idea

Celebrate it or hate it as you will, Wikipedia has metamorphosed from its beginnings as a gangly cultural interloper into the de facto reference work of first resort….. My column from last week on Wikipedia’s 15th birthday.

And in one of the Half-Baked Ideas to Save the World (is that trademarked?) offered at the Random Nerds blogazine, editor-in-chief Bryce Rudow makes the case for “A Wiki History Textbook.” Actually it seems like the historians have been working in that direction — see my interview with the editors of The American Yawp.

Or, if you’re just here killing time…..