Thing 12

Wikis--
I do agree with the teachers asking students to look further than wikipedia when doing the usual school report that is easily findable in a more authoritative source. They should be teaching the kids to look further than than their noses (ie a google search that brings up a wikipedia article)-- that's what school is for and they should be establishing good habits they'll hold onto.

Hey, I confess I have read Wikipedia articles -- sometimes it's the only place to find out about a defunct tv series or some celebrity gossip. I admire it for its far-reaching subject matter --there's lots of stuff that only a wikipedist will cover.
Of course all this self publishing and treating everyone in hearing range to your telephone conversations is a change for society that we won't understand the impact of for decades.

I added a comment to the 23things Wiki. Just an exercise to join my comment and my name to others I saw there.

I have tried the floating collection wiki we're using at work. Good idea in theory and I admire the creator for putting it up. Wikis have amazing potential if you have avid followers. My son (sorry if you're tired of hearing about them, folks) used a wiki to plan a group camping trip to great advantage.

I read through the library practices wiki and some of the others. Some looked like they had been started and abandoned or at least didn't seem recently used. I can see that easily happening. I will have to think hard about doing anything like that because it seems that once on the web, always on the web and I don't find abandoned property desirable.