NIcholson Baker reviews O'Reilly's Wikipedia: The Missing Manual.

This has been all over the blogosphere, but I'm posting it here for future reference. The Kent State example is particularly interesting.

Nick Carr takes aim at the idea that Wikipedia – or any encyclopedia – can be representative of the sum of human knowledge.

This is a nice synopsis of Ackoff's DIKW model, which establishes a hierarchy of things that can be known or communicated.

Right-wing bloggers have suggested that the Israeli attack on a Lebanese ambulance was a hoax. While the bloggers stayed home and performed textual analysis on photographs, Human Rights Watch went to Lebanon and concluded there was an Israeli attack.

"Social epistemology is the study of the social dimensions of knowledge or information. There is little consensus, however, on what the term "knowledge" comprehends, what is the scope of the "social", or what the style or purpose of the study should be."