Nicholas Carr — Wikipedia as a black hole

I like to track Nicholas Carr’s blog, Rough Type, partly because it deals with a number of media issues — particularly with Wikipedia.  So it was interesting to get his take on Wikipedia’s decision this last weekend to make all its external links, no-follow links.  Here’s the post:

http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2007/01/is_wikipedia_a.php

 

–TR


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    Very interesting discussion of the “no follow” rule at Wikipedia. Here’s another Wikipedia discussion: http://chnm.gmu.edu/history/faculty/kelly/blogs/edwired/?p=126 that has taken off in the past couple of days.