The most compelling writing sounds confident and authoritative, no matter what the topic is.
Kazin was more than a literary critic -- he was, in his own phrase, a "critic at large," which is to say, a polymath, authoritative on many topics; but those many topics may not have included the prickly theme of his own deepest impulses.
So in a sense it competes more with Mahalo or Squidoo in that it creates authoritative pages around topics, except that these pages are really constantly updated topic or interest feeds that anyone can add to.
The Art and Entertainment of the "All-Embracing" View (1988) is one of the most authoritative books on the topic.
The last authoritative assessment of the topic was done by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2001.
According to the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, considered the most authoritative document on the topic, average temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere rose roughly 1.5 degrees from 1979 to 2005 — a shift that has not yet eliminated the need for heavy coats.
Squidoo shares little in common with any of the services above because no one person can really be authoritative on a given topic.
Moreover, it is the Master of Theology's duty to give, on request, his authoritative opinion on any topic; hence the numerous questions of a pastoral, social, political and even economic kind that make Henry's Quodlibeta one of the richest and liveliest theological works of the entire Scholastic production (Porro 2006; Marmursztejn 2007; König-Pralong 2011).
In 1960, Austrian economist, political theorist, and Nobel Laureate Friedrich Hayek published "The Origins of the Rule of Law," which would become the twentieth century's authoritative writing on the topic.
A discussion of the selection of an optimal data set is beyond the scope of this paper and the reader is referred to Yang [59] for an authoritative treatment of the topic.
