Lexicography at the time of the internet

From the Economist:

The internet is radically changing lexicography. So many dictionaries—from both traditional and new publishers—are free online that lexicographers compete to offer features such as audio pronunciations, access to their database of historical citations and so on. Perhaps inevitably, online lexicographers include new words more quickly than their print counterparts do. There is no real space consideration, for one thing. And for some kinds of searches, an online dictionary that does not keep up with new language will be out-competed by other dictionaries that do. For example, Urban Dictionary, an online resource full of scurrilous definitions, included "side boob" in 2005. Pressure from internet dictionaries may have led Collins, an traditional dictionary, to allow Twitter users to vote for a new word to be included—the winner was "adorkable". So it is hardly surprising that even Oxford includes a few "cray cray" (in other words, crazy) new words each year. A final advantage of online lexicography is that over-hasty entries can easily be removed.

The article discusses the recent inclusion of "mansplaining", "side boob", and "neckbeard" in the venerable Oxford Dictionary.