IT Reviews (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
more dollops of reference wisdom from Britannica: The DVD-based version of the Encyclopedia Britannica is back for its yearly regeneration. A bit like Doctor Who, but with a little less pizzazz. Interestingly, the promotional blurb for the package states the advantages of Britannica...
Crisisblogger (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
... is the mass who will not stand for misinformation. Hence, wikipedia can be more accurate than the Encyclopedia Britannica–the power of the volunteer masses.
The Daily Dish (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
... stations waiting for a major event. Similarly, Microsoft has to pay a programmer full time, and Encyclopedia Britannica has to pay someone to write articles. But Flickr can make use of a person with just one photo to contribute, Linux can harness the work of a programmer with little time, and Wikipedia benefits if someone corrects just a single typo. These aggregations of millions...
Britannica Blog (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
Editor's note: About this time last year, longtime blogger and Encyclopaedia Britannica contributor Gregory McNamee offered up these musings about Thanksgiving movies. In the spirit of the season, we thought the post, and the movies it mentions---not a turkey among them---merit a fresh viewing. And what does the film Casablanca have to do with the feast? Nothing, except that Michael Curtiz's...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
... has gone missing. The book has a flat, dutiful tone, as if it aspired to be a frighteningly long Encyclopaedia Britannica entry. The primary characters, Chagall among them, have embalming fluid rather than blood coursing through their veins. Worse, Ms. Wullschlager can’t seem to get the critic in her mind into sync with the storyteller who cohabitates there. She describes so many...
iTWire - Latest Headlines (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
Page 1 of 3Telstra's eyeing up the senior market with a new 3G phone designed with older users in mind, although anyone that prefers 'just a phone' might see that with the EasyTouch Discovery, there's more than meets the eye.In a world of ever more advanced smartphones packing in more features than volumes of the old Encyclopedia Britannica, it's always refreshing when a phone that promises...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
... in similar contexts has only limited application. It does not apply to languages in general. Encyclopaedia Britannica is silent on the subject, classical languages. But it deals with classical literature. The word, classic or classical, is generally used in relation to literature and not languages,” he said. No Government, he maintained, had any call to elevate a language to a status...
The Next Web (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
... book Weinberger quotes ( original article ) Robert McHenry who is a former Editor in Chief of the Encyclopedia Britannica: “The user who visits Wikipedia to learn about some subject, to confirm some matter of fact, is rather in the position of a visitor to a public restroom. It may be obviously dirty, so that he knows to exercise great care, or it may seem fairly clean, so that he...
