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The BM has begun an unusual collaboration with Wikipedia to help ensure that the museum's expertise and notable artifacts are reflected in that digital reference's pages. "(...) five times as many people go to the Wikipedia article as to ours." In other words, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em...

Chris is expanding this article into a book, due out in May 2006. Follow his continuing coverage of the subject on The Long Tail blog. In 1988, a British mountain climber named Joe Simpson wrote a book called Touching the Void, a harrowing account of near death in the Peruvian Andes.