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March 29, 2009

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Wikipediopolis

Metaphors, particularly of the “A is B” variety, are best when they can teach you something you didn’t know or fully recognize before — about either A or B. I think Noam Cohen’s “Wikipedia is a City” conceit does the job.

For instance, he tackles the anti-Wikipedia movement:

People don