Wisdom of Crowds?

As a follow up to my recent post “Confusion, Ignorance, and Critical Thinking: Why Librarians Matter”, I came across an opinion piece written in response to Clive Thompson’s article which I also referenced, “Manufacturing Confusion” (Wired, Issue 17.02).  Barry Berger replies, using Wikipedia as an example:
“Wikipedia does not build real knowledge through consensus anymore than [...]

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YouTube is the next generation search engine?

I recently came across “Is YouTube the Next Google?” at ReadWriteWeb and it got me thinking. Especially the part:
Whenever his son needed any information, he would open up YouTube, type in the search term and then just watch the videos that showed up as matches. He never Googled anything; he never went to any other [...]

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