"Truthiness" is Word of the Year
If you've been following the whole Stephen Colbert/Wikipedia/truthiness thing, you'll be interested to know that "truthiness" was voted word of the year for 2006, according to an online survey by Merriam-Webster. An article I read recently states that experts generally rate Wikipedia's accuracy higher than non-experts. I thought that was rather interesting. Although I use Wikipedia quite often these days, I never feel as comfortable with the information there as I would from, say, a book on the same subject. I think part of that is because it's so much easier for someone to edit a Wikipedia page than it is to publish a book. You're putting a lot of faith in the public, in general, and specifically in the moderators. But, for the most part, the information seems to be very accurate. At least, for the subjects in which I consider myself knowledgeable, which aren't many.