Encyclopaedia Britannica Webshare

Howard Yermish — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 11:05:52 +0000

In an effort to compete with Wikipedia, the de facto standard for bloggers, Encyclopaedia Britannica has launched Webshare…

Here’s a quote from the site:

A special program for web publishers, including bloggers, webmasters, and anyone who writes for the Internet. You get complimentary access to the Encyclopaedia Britannica online and, if you like, an easy way to give your readers background of the topics you write about with links to complete Britannica articles.

And here is a nice widget that anyone can get about specific topics to embed into a website: (Edited: WordPress doesn’t like iframes, I guess. Pretend that this is right here.)

I applied for the free membership since I am and have been a web publisher since 1993. I’ll keep y’all posted if I get in. Honestly, I was wondering when Britannica was going to try to remain relevant as the steamroller called Wikipedia dominated the Internet.

Steven Colbert on Wikiality

Howard Yermish — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 11:50:14 +0000

As a follow-up to the previous post about understanding Wikis, here is a great segment from The Colbert Report. In August of 2006, Steven Colbert edited several Wikipedia articles during the taping of his show. After making his changes, Colbert encouraged his viewers to spread his concept of Wikiality by changing the Wikipedia entries on elephants to reflect the fact that the elephant population in Africa “has tripled in the last six months” – a way, he joked, to disarm environmentalists worldwide.

“Together, we can create a reality that we can all agree on – the reality that we just agreed on.”

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Encyclopaedia Britannica Webshare

Steven Colbert on Wikiality