Digital Universe a Wikipedia Alternative

Augustine J writes "A new alternative to Wikipedia called Digital Universe is the brainchild of, USWeb founder Joe Firmage and Larry Sanger, one of Wikipedia's earliest creators. This new site differs from Wikipedia by inviting acknowledged experts in a range of subjects to review material contributed by the general public. "The vision of the Digital Universe is to essentially provide an ad-free alternative to the likes of AOL and Yahoo on the Internet," said Firmage. "Instead of building it through Web robots, we're building it through a web of experts at hundreds of institutions throughout the world.""

Comments

Re:Too Similar [OT]

[ozmanjusri]

I hate when people mod you redundant.

That's because mod points aren't intended as a means of criticising posts, they're meant to be used to change their visibility at a particular threshold. If there are a hundred posts expressing the same point of view, it doesn't matter to someone reading Slashdot (and therefore generating income from the ads) that all of the posts are valid, it's still boring.

If you want to express an opinion which is likely to be commonly held and don't want to be modded redundant, differentiate it from the pack. Make it funny, link to some useful information or try to look for a different angle.