Re:After 244 Years, Encyclopaedia Britannica Stops the Presses
by bartread on Tuesday March 13, 2012 @08:12PM
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Seriously? YOU don't? You've obviously never experienced the Wikipedia death spiral: 30 browser tabs open all on unrelated Wikipedia pages. It was dangerously close to an addiction for me at one point and the amount of random crap I now know it irritates me I'm still so poor at pub quizes. There's probably some Godwin's Law equivalent where once you've opened a tab relating to Hitler or the Nazis, having started off on an article about Bengal Tigers, you know it's time for bed.
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Re:After 244 Years, Encyclopaedia Britannica Stops the Presses
by waterlesscloud on Tuesday March 13, 2012 @08:30PM
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The problem is that you're selecting the topics. The value of a physical encyclopedia is that they've selected the topics and you're browsing them at random.