Information at your fingertips

When I first heard of Wikipedia, I was a little skeptical. I mean, if you have tens of thousands of people contributing to this body of knowledge, how can you be sure what you are reading is correct? Well, it turns out a lot of other people feel the same way and the folks over at Nature did a study comparing the accuracy of Wikipedia and Britannica. It's a good read and the results wre pretty surprising to me. It looks like the scientific articles score high for accuracy, but it doesn't say anything about the entries for all the pop culture stuff that appears in Wikipedia...I mean, there are entries for the iPod and the Macarena!