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It must be the online equivalent of "sweeps week" because two prominent news sites are running weeklong feature. Slate.com is celebrating "college week" this week. One article asks semi-famous folks "What was the most influential book you read in college?" Neal Pollack has a particularly interesting response. While it's tempting to brown-nose one of my current professors and say The Classical Hollywood Cinema, I think I'll go with Don DeLillo's White Noise, which will probably make Chuck happy. Runners-up would include Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man which is disqualified since I was assigned it as many as five times in high school and college, and the other film book I can name off the top of my head, Spike, Mike, Slackers, and Dykes by John Pierson, who teaches producing in my department.

CNet's news.com.com is also running a weeklong feature called "Taking Back the Web," which discusses the growing popularity of tools that allow ordinary folks to publish on the Web. Today's installment is on Wikis, and, of course, it emphasizes Wikipedia, the Wiki with the highest profile.