Ten Reasons Marketers Should Pay Attention to Wikipedia - ClickZ: "But Wikipedia is rewriting the marketing script, because it's far and away one of the Web's most potent and powerful affirmation drivers. Once the primary domain of A-list bloggers and Web 2.0 elite, it's now unmistakably penetrated the online masses. Even those who don't use it are impacted by the conversation it shapes, online or off-."
Interview: Bloggers, direct marketing, and social networking: "When connecting with customers online, you need to open a dialogue with them as individuals. Seth Godin, Sean Parker and Jimmy Wales talk about how blogging and social networking have changed the nature of direct marketing."
Wikipedia:Who, Why? - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Wonder who is actively spending time on WIkipedia, and why they are? I thought this page on Wikipedia was interesting, not so much by its existence, but by its crappiness. You'd think that of all the pages on the entire site, maybe save the homepage, this one would be incredible. Not so much.
Is Wikipedia Corrupt?: It's always concerned me that there is such a small number of people *truly* in control of Wikipedia, specifically because of stories like this one. What do you think? Does Wikipedia have a fundamental flaw or is this just sour grapes and/or paranoia?
Google Develops Wikipedia Rival - Yahoo! News: From the site:: Google is developing an online publishing platform where people can write entries on subjects they know, an idea that's close to Wikipedia's user-contributed encyclopedia but with key differences. The project, which is in an invitation-only beta stage, lets users create clean-looking Web pages with their photo and write entries on, for example, insomnia. Those entries are called "knols" for "unit of knowledge," Google said. Google wants the knols to develop into a deep repository of knowledge, covering topics such as geography, history and entertainment.