Very perceptive appreciation of Wikipedia by Nicholson Baker in the
current New York Review of Books. Free!
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/21131
FTA: "Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It's fact-encirclingly
huge, and it's idiosyncratic, careful, messy, funny, shocking, and full
of simmering controversies-and it's free, and it's fast. In a few
seconds you can look up, for instance, "Diogenes of Sinope," or
"turnip," or "Crazy Eddie," or "Bagoas," or "quadratic formula," or
"Bristol Beaufighter," or "squeegee," or "Sanford B. Dole," and you'll
have knowledge you didn't have before. It's like some vast aerial city
with people walking briskly to and fro on catwalks, carrying picnic
baskets full of nutritious snacks."
Enjoy.
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