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Monday, March 12, 2007

Wikipedia Is A Dangerous Weapon

Writer Ted Gross takes off on WikipediaTeddy may be a bit long-winded in Cobwebs of the Mind, but he seems to get my point in In The Hands Of Fools Wikipedia Is A Dangerous Weapon.

Why is it that some people who call themselves "writers" are truly beginning to scare me these days? Why is it that any utterance that comes from the pen of struggling writers must be accepted as intelligent and full of thought? Why is it that anyone who can use a "virtual" pen in less than a day becomes a "writer and author" even though their "virtual minds" are empty? Why is it that we get the distinct feeling when reading the musing and ideas of some people on blogs and forum boards we begin to think the person writing was in the bathroom when God gave out brains?

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Blogger domestika said...

Ah, I second that! Sometimes it's almost embarrassing to admit to writing for a living, because "writer" has become such a devalued term. You can almost see the eyes rolling all around the room, and hear people thinking, "Oh, so she dabbles... how cute."

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