Wiki-journalism

If you're not familiar with Wikipedia, where have you been? It's a user-defined encyclopedia where anyone and everyone can add or edit content at will. Sounds like an experimental social disaster in the making, but surprisingly, it works quite well.

Esquire magazine's A.J. Jacobs was writing an article on the brilliance of Wikipedia, and he ended up having a pretty clever idea of his own: Write a crummy article, post it on Wikipedia and let the users rewrite it.

The result? It's a pretty good read. It's also well-written, clever and informative. The 'Wiki' experiment proves to be successful, yet again. Check out the article for yourself.