<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><entry xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10878440.post-116630445343942380</id><published>2006-12-09T21:22:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-12-16T21:27:33.536Z</updated><title type='text'>Trendsurfing: Wiki books (The Times)</title><summary type='text'>By David RowanYou use Wikipedia as a vast online free dictionary. You click around annotated mash-ups of Google Maps to share other people's thoughts on everything from recommended pubs to property prices. So it was inevitable that the publishing industry, too, would succumb to the power of collective intelligence. That quaint old notion of a professional editor being assigned to fine-tune an </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10878440/posts/default/116630445343942380'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10878440/posts/default/116630445343942380'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.davidrowan.com/2006/12/trendsurfing-wiki-books-times.html' title='Trendsurfing: Wiki books (The Times)'/><author><name>David Rowan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05876146044452612929</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='02895541175436702294'/></author></entry>