{"id":155,"date":"2005-06-28T05:01:51","date_gmt":"2005-06-28T09:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/metasj\/2005\/06\/28\/wikipedia-tipping-point\/"},"modified":"2005-06-28T05:01:51","modified_gmt":"2005-06-28T09:01:51","slug":"wikipedia-tipping-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2005\/06\/28\/wikipedia-tipping-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Wikipedia tipping point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a926'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">waiting <\/span>for this for<br \/>\na long time.&nbsp; Today, it finally happened.&nbsp; I was searching<br \/>\nfor a bit of esoterica which I wouldn&#8217;t know how to look up in any<br \/>\nreference work; not a dictionary or an encyclopedia or even a polished<br \/>\nusage guide. <\/p>\n<p>I entered a pair of words into Google, expecting to find a throw-away<br \/>\ncomment about it on the third page of&nbsp; results; enough to satisfy<br \/>\nmy curiosity.&nbsp; And <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">there it was<\/span><br \/>\n&#8212; the top hit, a Wikipedia page (a discussion page at that), with<br \/>\nexactly what I was looking for.&nbsp; In gorey detail.&nbsp; It was as<br \/>\nthough I had reached effortlessly into the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">collective subconscious<\/span> and pulled out, not just what I had verbalized, but what I had been thinking.<\/p>\n<p>Every other hit for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=reelect+dieresis\">the pair<\/a> was one of those wordlists that so often foil googlewhacking.<br \/>\nFor those of you who are curious, one \/does\/ sometimes put a diacritic over double-e&#8217;s, in early-20th century and older English.<\/p>\n<p>I hope all those silly futurists were wrong about networks of<br \/>\ninformation being able to take on a life of their own.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>In other<br \/>\nnews, John Perry Barlow and all those Signal or Noise lawyers were<br \/>\nright about Grokster.&nbsp; I wonder if they are content with the<br \/>\nresult&#8230;.. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been waiting for this for a long time.&nbsp; Today, it finally happened.&nbsp; I was searching for a bit of esoterica which I wouldn&#8217;t know how to look up in any reference work; not a dictionary or an encyclopedia or even a polished usage guide. I entered a pair of words into Google, expecting to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-la-mod"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iVvB-2v","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}