the significance of this mail here about the wikipedia-"social-manipulating'n'networking" is that it comes with the "narrative"-theory. and one has to extend it to all kinds of lexicons: all ...pedias are narrations telling the truth of the authors. that's 1st semester knowledge (narrative) anyway.
best m > So, Wikipedia, > instead of being a repository for knowledge, is mostly a collection of > corporate produced, controlled, distributed stories. <...> # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net