Remembering 9/11
September 11, 2006
Shortly after the sad and terrifying events of September 11, 2001, I discovered this website - hereisnewyork.org
Here Is New York is an archive, an oral history, an online memorial, a community of contributors, a “democracy of photographs.”
Another good website of audio oral histories about 9/11 is storycorps.net. Hear people speak about the events in their own words, in their own voices …
Unfiltered humanity.
Dubious or Reliable?
September 11, 2006
Interesting story today on NPR’s Morning Edition about Wikipedia.
”Wikipedia is the ever-evolving work of hundreds-of-thousands of volunteer writers and editors who range from high school students to academic scholars. This leaves the online encyclopedia open to criticism and ridicule. That doesn’t seem to stop people from using the site as a source for knowledge.”
After hearing the NPR story, the basic idea of Wikipedia, already mentioned by Ed in his blog, makes me think that:
If society generally distrusts “modeling done by a single mind,” than do people also distrust modeling done by too many minds?
