A Wikipedia Blog
I’m tempted to start a blog solely for linking to great Wikipedia entries. One of my morning rituals is to hit the random page link at Wikipedia and see where it takes me. I’ve found some fantastic articles that beat anything in a paid resource.
Take a browse through the Billiant Prose page and see gems like Sniper, Crushing by Elephant (morbidly fascinating), Batman, Dick Tracy, James Bond, etc. You could make an entire blog out of links to great Wikipedia entries. According to the statistics page, there are almost 200,000 entries. That should keep you busy for a while.
Someone should do this.
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Filterblogs
Introducting the concept of a "filterblog": a blog that filters a single, large body of content to extract that content of value to a particular audience. I just made the word up, but I bet it could work.
The Wikipedia Blog
WikiWisdom: I asked for it, and someone went and did it... A weblog dedicated to wikipedia.org? Why not. The content is free, after all. The Wikipedia offers hundreds of thousands of articles of information - that's right, hundreds of thousands. Of course, many of those hundreds of thousands are rather short…
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Did it! Have a look but keep in mind that my approach is not necessarily to find entries consisting solely brilliant prose. I look for informative articles that are well written and educational.
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