{"id":732,"date":"2006-04-17T17:03:52","date_gmt":"2006-04-17T21:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/metasj\/2006\/04\/17\/hey-didja-catch-that-bbc-focus-article"},"modified":"2006-04-17T17:03:52","modified_gmt":"2006-04-17T21:03:52","slug":"hey-didja-catch-that-bbc-focus-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/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.&nbsp; <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Suburbia<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/strangnet.se\/blog\/2006\/04\/14\/another-encyclopedic-comparison\/\">describes it well<\/a>.&nbsp; <\/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.<br \/><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.&nbsp; <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Suburbia<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/strangnet.se\/blog\/2006\/04\/14\/another-encyclopedic-comparison\/\">describes it well<\/a>.&nbsp; <\/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<p><a href='http:\/\/strangnet.se\/blog\/2006\/04\/14\/another-encyclopedic-comparison\/'>Hey, didja catch that BBC Focus article? &#8230;<\/a><\/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.&nbsp; Suburbia describes it well.&nbsp; 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.BBC Focus put out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metrics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iVvB-bO","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732","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=732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}