I guess it's been awhile since Nick Carr got some blogosphere love - today, he's calling Wikipedia "dead":

Wikipedia, the encyclopedia that "anyone can edit," was a nice experiment in the "democratization" of publishing, but it didn't quite work out. Wikipedia is dead. It died the way the pure products of idealism always do, slowly and quietly and largely in secret, through the corrosive process of compromise.

Right. Apparently, restricted editing rights on some of the more controversial pages signals the end times. Here's his point, such as it is:

The end came last Friday. That's when Wikipedia's founder, Jimmy Wales, proposed "that we eliminate the requirement that semi-protected articles have to announce themselves as such to the general public." The "general public," you see, is now an entity separate and distinct from those who actually control the creation of Wikipedia. As Vaughan-Nichols says, "And the difference between Wikipedia and a conventionally edited publication is what exactly?"

Sure Nick, sure. And blogs that moderate comments are dishonest, too. Maybe I should set up a chart, so I could plot Carr's needs for attention and see if there's a pattern.