{"id":1054,"date":"2008-02-02T15:51:52","date_gmt":"2008-02-02T22:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/?p=1054"},"modified":"2008-02-02T15:51:52","modified_gmt":"2008-02-02T22:51:52","slug":"eb_and_me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=1054","title":{"rendered":"EB and me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Encyclopaedia Britannica has <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.britannica.com\/blog\/main\/2008\/01\/nick-carr-david-gelernter-and-michael-wesch-new-britannica-advisors\/\">announced<\/a> that it is adding three new members to its editorial board of advisors, and I am honored to report that I am one of them. The other two are the computer scientist and author David Gelernter and the cultural anthropologist Michael Wesch (who last year produced the YouTube masterwork <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g\">The Machine Is Us\/ing Us<\/a>). We join existing board members Wendy Doniger, Benjamin Friedman, Leslie Gelb, Murray Gell-Mann, Vartan Gregorian, Thomas Nagel, Donald Norman, Don Michael Randel, and Lord Sutherland of Houndwood.<\/p>\n<p>Founded 240 years ago, the Britannica holds a distinguished place in the history of ideas, and I am thrilled to be associated with it. I have already been briefed on some of the encyclopedia&#8217;s plans for the next couple of years, particularly for expanding its presence online in a way that gives readers a greater ability to organize and contribute information while maintaining the editorial integrity of the encyclopedia and its many distinguished authors. I think people will find the new features to be innovative, engaging, and useful.<\/p>\n<p>As is usually the case with such bodies, the board of advisors plays a modest role, serving as a sounding board for planning, offering suggestions and ideas, and pitching in with some editorial work now and then. I can only hope my own contributions prove worthy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Encyclopaedia Britannica has announced that it is adding three new members to its editorial board of advisors, and I am honored to report that I am one of them. The other two are the computer scientist and author David Gelernter and the cultural anthropologist Michael Wesch (who last year produced the YouTube masterwork The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}