{"id":731,"date":"2006-04-17T17:03:52","date_gmt":"2006-04-17T21:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2006\/04\/17\/hey-didja-catch-that-bbc-focus-art"},"modified":"2006-05-01T15:04:43","modified_gmt":"2006-05-01T19:04:43","slug":"hey-didja-catch-that-bbc-focus-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2006\/04\/17\/hey-didja-catch-that-bbc-focus-article\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey, didja catch that BBC Focus article?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"a1251\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">BBC Focus<\/span> put out a micro-comparison of Wikipedia, Britannica Online, Encarta, and Infoplease, asking three experts to review one article apiece.  <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Suburbia<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/strangnet.se\/blog\/2006\/04\/14\/another-encyclopedic-comparison\/\">describes it well<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Reporters running a <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">statistically insignificant<\/span> comparison with other references, is becoming as popular as vandalizing Wikipedia, when it comes to coming up with a story to publish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC Focus put out a micro-comparison of Wikipedia, Britannica Online, Encarta, and Infoplease, asking three experts to review one article apiece. Suburbia describes it well. Reporters running a statistically insignificant comparison with other references, is becoming as popular as vandalizing Wikipedia, when it comes to coming up with a story to publish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metrics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}