Its final. The newspapers of the future (as near as 2009) would be Wikipedia style wikis that only editors and journalists and other related media person's can edit. In a talk delivered at a local Silicon Valley newspaper company Marissa Mayer thinks that's how news media in a democratic world should be.
What this means? This means Google will soon a start a wiki based news service and will do everything to force this idea onto the minds of humanity. Though you may jump up thinking its great idea, it is actually a stolen idea, Jimmy Wales thought about it way back in 2001 but didn't bother to capitalize on it. Current affairs topics in Wikipedia are edited the way all other articles are edited in Wikipedia, making the experience more richer.
A limited wiki is the ultimate weapon to force your opinion on people, it looks a wiki but its only wiki-ed by a small group of people. Bravo to Marissa, Larry, Sergey and Schmidt.
August 11, 2008
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