Most of you should be familiar with Wikipedia ... it's by far one of the more interesting "community" efforts going on in the internet world. Basically, it's an online encyclopedia which anybody can add to (which is cool, as you will see) and delete from (which can be bad, as you will see). In short, it can be a Ph.D student adding some important information about the mems of a cell, or an intellectual Dilettant flexing their stupidity and ruining the hardwork of others (ok... you can kinda see my attitude toward Wikipedia in someways, but I'm not bitter :-X) ... whatever the case ...
There is a cool screencast presentation making its way around the internet about how far Wikipedia has come, with using an ultra specific example of Wikipedia's Heavy metal umlaut page.
Is "distributive" knowledge "more powerful" than that of specialists in the field? We hear the hots on distributive computing (and its power), but do human brains work in the same manner? You make the call ...
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