Archive for March, 2008


Forethought vs. Afterthought

March 20th, 2008 - by admin

Recently, The New York Times, once a bastion of paper publishing, joined the paper vs. online encyclopedia smackdown. Start Writing the Eulogies for Print Encyclopedias, wrote reporter Noam Cohen.
The print encyclopedia - like that set of The Encyclopedia Brittanica taking up space on your bookshelves - is on its way out. [...]


The Encyclopedia Lives!

March 11th, 2008 - by admin

The Encyclopedia of Life is up and running. And the Sixth Square strongly encourages you to check it out.
There are more than 300,000 pages to choose from, with information on what seems like millions of species. But the EOL isn’t close to done - it’ll take up to ten years to catalogue the [...]

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