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:: The Open-Content Revolution?
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People are so hyped up about open-source,
ranting and raving as if the open-source movement has
produced even one commercial product. (Shuddap!
Don’t say LINUX, because the LINUX boxes
you’re buying are produced by companies, not by
open-source!). Oh yes, there’s Netscape. Well,
Good luck with that. But we digress - Just when you
thought you’d seen the last of
‘open-x’ so-called revolutions, here comes
‘Open-Content’. A new site called www.nupedia.com is upon us. The idea is to have an encyclopedia
which is public domain, and regular people, like you and
us (only smarter) are the ones which contribute the
value.
How does it work? Well, anyone who
considers himself an expert on something, or just has
way to much free time can join the nupedia team of
volunteers. Available positions are Editors, Writers or
Peer reviewers. From what we’ve seen, they
don’t have too many articles to date, and most
subjects you search for turn out to be referrals to
Wired, Encarta or whatever. So – Open content it
is. Now – Let us all together say it slowly
– r-e-v-e-n-u-e-s-?
Wadi writer # 3 (Maroon)
WadiList@Mail.com
Links:
http://www.nupedia.com
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