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One man's facts 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 t.
Byline: Bobby Pickering
One man's facts
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, educationa[bar]
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 ...
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