It appears that Britannica has given in to the popularity of participatory authoring and will allow users to edit its own online version.
Mr Cauz said that any changes or additions made to Britannica entries online would have to be vetted by one of the company\’s staff or freelance editors before the changes were reflected on the live site.
Britannica is particularly miffed that content produced by the organization does not appear prominently in Google web searches.
I tried the Britannica website this morning, but found no obvious change. Maybe you have to go through the registration and login process before you can participate.
BTW – the Britannica blog is kind of interesting. I found this old post on web 2.0 classrooms.
