EB’s 2-Track Mind? A Blast from the Past
A few years ago, Freerepublic posted a note about the Encyclopedia Britannica, with Dale Hoiberg speaking about its most promising content channels, and how it intends to refresh its online content quickly with two-track workflow. I’m dying to know whether they’ve stuck with it for the past three years, and how their workflow has changed.
The material online, moreover, is constantly updated. Britannica’s editor, a Sinologist named Dale Hoiberg, says it has instituted a two-track workflow: one fast, for work that needs to be turned around quickly (for an impeachment, for instance); and another slower, for the traditional work of researching, writing and editing the encyclopedia’s entries.
Ms. Schroeder predicts that reference publishers will pursue “such a variety of different business models, it will make your head swim.”
(from the March 2, 2001 edition of freerepublic.com, a mere six weeks after Wikipedia’s founding)
Including, I suppose, the “100% volunteer” business model.