Comments on: Two book notes http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2011/09/22/two-book-notes/ Let's just see what happens Sun, 16 Jun 2013 09:24:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: pligg.com http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2011/09/22/two-book-notes/comment-page-1/#comment-70312 pligg.com Mon, 03 Oct 2011 10:23:40 +0000 http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/?p=11008#comment-70312 Joho the Blog » Two book notes…

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]]> By: Seth Finkelstein http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2011/09/22/two-book-notes/comment-page-1/#comment-70246 Seth Finkelstein Thu, 22 Sep 2011 16:48:08 +0000 http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/?p=11008#comment-70246 Not that it’ll matter or change anything, but Reagle’s book has been thoroughly criticized – my phrase is “quasi-academic marketing”. For a very uncomplimentary analysis, see, e.g., the following extremely critical discussion thread. For example, Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger stated:

“I received a review copy, from the publisher looking for a promo quote from me. I glanced at a few woefully misleading things it contained about the early history of Wikipedia, and my views, and never picked it up again. This is probably all I’ll ever say about it…”

Again, I’ve become cynical enough enough to know the following won’t count against it – but the book has been called-out by such a range of people who know what they’re talking about in regards to Wikipedia that it’s a shame their voices are marginalized while it’s promoted due to the politics of Wikipedia-hyping.

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