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What stunted Wikipedia's growth? And what does the slump tell us about the long-term viability of such strange and invaluable online experiments? Perhaps that the Web has limits after all, particularly when it comes to the phenomenon known as crowdsourcing. Wikipedians - the volunteers who run the site, especially the approximately 1,000 editors who wield the most power over what you see - have been in a self-reflective mood. Not only is Wikipedia slowing, but also new stats suggest that hard-core participants are a pretty homogeneous set - the opposite of the ecumenical wiki ideal. Women, for instance...
Obama has vowed instead to fund projects examining alternatives, an effort echoed in the Senate Finance Committee health-reform bill released Sept. 16. One idea: apologize. Studies show that when doctors tell patients they erred and are sorry, litigation is much less likely. (Such admissions of guilt are typically inadmissible in court.) Since launching a program in which doctors admit errors and offer payments out of court, the University of Michigan Health System has cut claims in half...
...selecting the contributors, Marcus said that he and Sollors posed the questions: “Who do we want to hear from? Who will tell us something we don’t know...
...Marcus contended that if the book does not have a historical skeleton, it doesn’t need one. “What it is in pursuit of is a heart,” he said. “That might tell us a lot about where the country is and where it needs...
Every Tuesday. 4:00-5:30. IOP. Bask in my greatness. Fawn at my feet. Memorize my autobiography. (Oh, and did I tell you about being young and being the cousin of the wife of the college roommate of "the funniest man in Montana...