Looks at the myth of openness in Wikipedia. Talks about how Wikipedia has really moved towards stricter group-enforced editorial policy.  He thinks the myth demeans the individual in contributing to culture.

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Encyclopedia of housing / Willem Van Vliet--, editor. [0761913327 (cloth)] Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c1998.
Call#: Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks HD7287 .E53 1998

Encyclopedia of urban America : the cities and suburbs / Neil Larry Shumsky, editor. [0874368464 (set : alk. paper)] Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c1998.
Call#: Fine Arts Library Reference HT123 .E5 1998

Long signed articles with bibliographies. Topics, people, places.

Encyclopedia of urban cultures : cities and cultures around the world / edited by Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember. [0717256987 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper) ] Danbury, Conn. : Grolier, c2002.
Call#: Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks HT108.5 .E53 2002

Encyclopedia of the city / edited by Roger W. Caves. [0415252253 (alk. paper) ] London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.
Call#: Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks HT108.5 .E63 2005

By Julie Linden and Anne Green at Yale. 

Digitization has the potential to transform scholarly use of data found in print statistical publications. While presenting images of statistical tables in a digital library environment may be desirable, the full potential of such material can be realized only if the resulting digital objects are easy to search and manipulate and are accompanied by sufficient metadata to support extraction of numbers from tables and comparison of numbers across tables.

Abstract from First Monday:

In groups people can accomplish what they cannot do alone. Now new visual and social technologies are making it possible for people to make decisions and solve complex problems collectively. These technologies are enabling groups not only to create community but also to wield power and create rules to govern their own affairs. Electronic democracy theorists have either focused on the individual and the state, disregarding the collaborative nature of public life, or they remain wedded to outdated and unrealistic conceptions of deliberation. This article makes two central claims. First, technology will enable more effective forms of collective action. This is particularly so of the emerging tools for "collective visualization" which will profoundly reshape the ability of people to make decisions, own and dispose of assets, organize, protest, deliberate, dissent and resolve disputes together.

Wierd. When I click on the link to penntext screen from Penntags, it looks like we don't have te article online fulltext, but the screen I tagged provided a link to the ACM journal that has it. We do have the fulltext. Hmm. A little troubling.

Apparently, there's something in here about video games teaching spatial literacy. Reccomended by David Seaman from DLF.