Trusting the experts

Many bloggers in the past few days have been writing about Michael Gorman’s two recent pieces on the Encyclopedia Britannica blog (Web 2.0: The Sleep of Reason, Part I and Part II). In these two rather incoherent posts, Gorman, who is perhaps best known as the blog-hating former president of the American Library Association, associates Web 2.0 with “an increase in credulity and an associated flight from expertise,” which he blames for such calamities as citizen journalism, Biblical literalism, and Wikipedia.