Saturday, May 9, 2009

stage 2 (3)

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5. Anderson – while welcoming the democratisation of the marketplace that digital sales in web 2.0 environments have caused – warns against becoming too reliant upon user-generated content. Writing about the most famous example of citizen journalism, Wikipedia, he says, "It should be a site for information exploration, not the definite source of fact" (Anderson, 2008, pp. 69). He explains the same criteria applies to [music] blogs – another potent example of The Long Tail - that no single blog is authoritative, and you "just need to read more than one of them before making up your mind" (Anderson, 2008, pp. 69).


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