An online “debate” between Jimmy Wales, the founder/head of Wikipedia/Wikimedia and Dale Hoiberg, senior vice president and editor in chief of Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc. The entire ResourceShelf team is going to take some time to read this one carefully and then comment. Gary will also share some thoughts that he tossed out at Wikimania a few weeks ago where he presented a session with Jessica Baumgart.

This Wall Street Journal article is available for free to non-subscribers.

Source: WSJ

See Also: Don’t Forget that Many Libraries Offer Free Remote Access to the complete EB. A concise EB is available online at no charge. Finally, just about all of the text of Encarta is available free online. Read here to learn how to access. It’s also possible to access (free) Encarta via MSN Messenger. Details in this post.

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