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Editor's View - One man's facts.(Editorial)

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| November 16, 2005 | COPYRIGHT 2005 Incisive Media, published with the permission of Incisive Media. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Forget 9/11. Forget Katrina, Rita and Wilma. The real issues of our time are not cultures colliding or Mother Nature's retribution for greenhouse gases (the War on Terror and the War on Terra).

We're living through a grand rebalancing of the economic world order, as the internet impacts on every aspect of our lives - entertainment, health, financial services, education ...

New information resources pop up every day, many of them now fuelled by popular (almost religious) fervour. Open access publishing, Wikipedia, Connotea - information being created and shared by groups of people in informal environments.

No wonder the established publishing houses are bending ears to poison us against all this "unsustainable" and "unreliable" flotsam on the web. Whispering campaigns reach Category 5 hurricane level as articles appear in the national press calling into doubt the veracity of Wikipedia. Journalists are finally catching up with information services, having run the eBay ("fraud alert!") and Friends Reunited ("family breakers!") hares ...

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