EB Names Editorial Board of Advisors
Although the new Editorial Board of Advisors held their first meeting some time ago, the story has been picked up in various news sources and blogs recently because of EB’s press release from last Thursday and a story in the Boston Globe.
Some have suggested that the board is “primarily a PR effort” in “response to Wikipedia”. (A similiar response can be found here.) While not personally invovled in the deliberations that led to this iteration of the editorial board of advisors, I doubt that either of these statements are quite accurate. Britannica has convened a number of editorial boards in the past, and I doubt one wastes the time of these people too rashly.