One of the most popular internet sites, as I sure most or all of my readers know if Wikipedia. (if not see: http://www.wikipedia.org/ ) Wikipedia, the online, cooperatively written, encyclopedia is remarkable in that, though almost anyone can write or edit it's articles, it has been proven to be more accurate than Encyclopedia Britannica. This in spite of some saboteurs now and then. It seems that the multitude of willing volunteers corrects mistakes, accidental or deliberate, and finds references for undocumented items, much more efficiently than a single expert. Wikipedia is a horse built by committee that does not look like a camel, but in fact like a fine Arabian steed. Yesterday my post dealt with ways to create a society that was simultaneously more egalitarian and freer. I dealt with big ideas like subsidiarity, communitarianism, etc. (see http://roominhouseblues.blogspot.com/2010/11/some-ideas-o...
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