Link Banana

Finally recognizing that they might want to do something about this newfangled Wikipedia thing, Britannica is openning up. Sadly, only a little.

Since they don’t have a good quotable bit about it, they’re essentially letting “web publishers” gain free access to the content, and then allowing them to link to it and make the whole article readable by the world at large. It’s rather a Byzantine — and thus unlikely to make a big splash — system, but I have to give them some credit for trying.

(via kottke)

In similar trying-to-get-with-it news, CNN is selling shirt that feature it’s embarrassing headlines.