Linda Zuckerman's Page

When I became a librarian, I had no thought that I would be involved in deep philosophy, but I find that I am becoming more interested in "how one knows if something is true." Part of the impetus behind this
interest is due to Web 2.0 and all the new sources of information that
are available out there. The second is due to my eroding faith in
traditional sources of information: newspapers, TV, and radio. (My blogspot blog
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I'm very excited about the potential of Web 2.0 in our lives and am becoming more comfortable with user developed content. Recently, I've been reading the book Everything is Miscellaneous: The power of the new digital disorder by David Weinberger. He makes some interesting observations about Wikipedia. I, like many librarians of my acquaintance, have dismissed Wikipedia because of suspect content. Weinberger makes the point that many (most?) of the articles are not written by individuals,… Continue