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jerriann:

nationalpost:

Postipedia: The National Post’s Steve Murray fills in for Wikipedia
With Wikipedia out of action, the National Post‘s Steve Murray is picking up the slack for the ubiquitous online encyclopedia.

Send your questions to @NPsteve on Twitter with the hashtag #Postipedia or check back on this web page starting 10 a.m. Wednesday when he’ll be answering questions live. You can sign in using your login for Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, Gmail or MSN; use an anonymous login or email questions to 37096@scribblelive.com. For more on the whats and whys of the Wikipedia blackout, read on below.

I feel bad for news organizations. How is this going to get anyone to click through to your site? Also, why can’t people google their own questions and look the shit up? Come on. My editor proposed this idea to me and I told them that while it would engage readers it would be a waste of my time. 

What baffles me about this is that it seems to go against the point Wikipedia and plenty of other sites are trying to make. They are trying to show the world what could potentially happen, as newspapers continue to move towards a larger online presence wouldn’t they want to do some thing?

Also there is this crazy place called the library where you could get tons of free information and even use encyclopedias. Who knew!?