This big old visualisation from the accurately named informationisbeautiful.net really sums up the reason there are problems trying to satisfy such different mindsets. Though I’m a sucker for information visualisation I should disclose. Data and concepts such as this can (and should) be interesting. As an aside, here’s a TED talk showing some pretty funky [...]
Britannica 2.0.. Wikipedia killer?
Jan 22nd, 2009
VERY interesting development: Britannica to start allowing community contributions: Watch out Wikipedia, here comes Britannica 2.0 . I’ve been wondering how long before Encyclopaedia Britannica reaches out to widen their offering to compete with the massive volume (although no where near as high a quality as Britannica) of wikipedia. That said, wikipedia has significant issues [...]
