Nicholson Baker’s brilliant essay in the New York Review of Books. Half insightful and interesting commentary on Wikipedia, half book review.
This wasn’t like writing reviews on Amazon, where you were just one of a million people urging a tiny opinion and a Listmania list onto the world—this was an effort to build something that made sense apart from one’s own opinion, something that helped the whole human cause roll forward.
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