The Power of the Wiki

This came across my Twitter yesterday! I do use and recommend Wikipedia as a reference and resource tool, so I appreciated this point: one of the strengths of Wikipedia is the sheer amount of information that can be crowdsourced and made available in an extremely short amount of time.

RT @dawnrnelson: When talking with someone who resists Wikipedia, I point out entries like the Sendai earthqua… (cont) http://deck.ly/~TATmgless than a minute ago via TweetDeckBuffy Hamilton
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Here's the link to the Wikipedia article (notice the note at the top of the page which indicates that the information on the page is likely to change rapidly and may not be current), and a blog post from the Washington Post about other immediate responses to the disaster on the Internet. This type of response is something we are starting to take for granted, but it is still really a new phenomenon.