decloaking slightly
In a comment to an earlier post, mmChronic notes that my first post isn’t amusingly vague, it’s confusing. Let me decloak slightly to say this:
I am an EB staffer who believes two things:
(1) Overzealous Wikipedians and folks like Chris Anderson misunderstand what Encyclopædia Britannica is about. Complaining that Britannica is unlike Wikipedia or Google is like complaining that the Economist is unlike Kuro5hin or that Wired is unlike Gizmodo. They are different things–related but not identical.
(2) Certain members of Britannica’s executive team don’t understand how to articulate that difference to the world at large.
I only wish I had the time it takes to do this well.