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September 19, 2006
In a preemptive strike, Clay Shirky trashes Larry Sanger's proposed Citizendium project: "Sanger wants to believe that expertise can survive just fine outside institutional frameworks, and that Wikipedia is the anomaly. It can’t, and it isn’t."
Oh unreal world! Boing Boing finds that Hewlett-Packard has added a "slimming filter" to its digital cameras. HP's pitch: "They say cameras add ten pounds, but HP digital cameras can help reverse that effect. The slimming feature, available on select HP digital camera models, is a subtle effect that can instantly trim off pounds from the subjects in your photos!"
The boom in the solar-panel business has led to an "acute shortage" of silicon, driving up prices. The shortage should continue for at least two years as silicon makers build new factories, reports the Financial Times.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt tells Forbes that mashups will "transform the business world."
Phil Edwards writes: "The artificial elitism of the Wikipedia community doesn't only marginalise the 'masses' who contribute most of the original content; it also sidelines the subject-area experts who, within certain limited domains, have a genuine claim to be regarded as an elite."
Posted by nick at September 19, 2006 12:23 AM