“The individual user has been king on the Internet, but the pendulum seems to be swinging back toward edited information vetted by professionals.”

“Revenge of the experts?” is an interesting article in Newsweek, published on March, 6th and written by Tony Dokoupil, on the return of the professional or expert on the Internet after the “era of the amateur”.

One of the examples named is Google’s experiment with Knol, a Wikipedia-like Web site produced by “authoritative” sources (screenshot) and a new “people powered”search engine called Mahalo.

You can read comments about it on blogs like Medical 2.0 by Dr.Uri Ginzburg.