Everybody's doing it, doing it, doing it....

Once you get something on your radar screen, you begin to see it everywhere. Last night reading the April Quill & Quire I saw an ad for their blog: www.quillblog.com. They promise "now with RSS" but it doesn't seem to be working yet. I added the blog to my Favouites and will add the RSS (when it's up and running) to my feeds. Have a look. It's neat. They use Flickre for photos too.

Wikis

I have a reference librarian's natural suspicion of information that is not "authoritative" - written by someone with a degree after their name, an "expert" on the subject, in a respectd and reviewed reference book from a reputable publihser. Wikipedia and the like have challenged me to rethink this. There has been various studies, some showing that the information in wikis is more accurate, others that it is less accurate, others that it is about the same. In the March 15 Library Journal, Eli Guinnee (Editor in Chief Library Student Journal) is quoted as saying, "An inaccuracy in Britannica is (mis) taken as fact, an inaccuracy in Wikipedia is taken with a grain of salt, easily confirmed or proved wrong. In the end, the question is not whether wisdon from the masses contains more factual errors, the questions is whether that wisdom is more useful, more effiecient. And, I think, the answer is 'yes'."