Tuesday, January 2, 2007  Pre-Meds Gone Wiki!  I spent part of
this winter vacation satisfying an itch to learn about Wiki
websites (Wiki means "fast" in Hawaiian). Basically, these are
websites whose content can be edited by anyone. While this may
seem like a dangerous proposal, it has been immensely successful
with the generation of Wikipedia (encyclopedia) and Wiktionary
(dictionary). The contributors to these sites are usually
anonymous and often deliver better information (and more
current) than an actual book. It should be noted that oversight
is maintained by readers/contributors, so the fact checking is
not always 100%, but I still think its pretty good. Whenever I
have a question about some entity, I google the term, and
usually the Wikipedia entry is one to the top results. To me, I
find this medium of information exchange a revolution for the
internet. As Time magazine recognizes in its Person of the Year
(a mirror is on the cover), YOU are now in charge of your
experiences. Gone are the days when