eric | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 24 2007 | news, Stephen Merchant, opinion, journalism, wikipedia, thepugetnews
Stephen Merchant, one half of the comic duo behind "Extras" and "The Office," wrote an opinion piece for "The Guardian" yesterday wherein he describes the deplorable state of the press. Specifically, the press reliance on citizen journalism on sites like Wikipedia is leading to a humber of high-profile recantings.
Quoted: Therefore, I implore my fellow journalists to heed my words: we must not let our standards drop. We are bastions of truth and integrity. As Thomas Jefferson once said, "Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." I think Thomas Jefferson said that, but I can't be sure. I got it off the internet.
eric | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 13 2007 | wikipedia, funny, blogs
One of my favorite blogs, Defective Yeti, has a hilarious collection of wikipedai articles which were hastily deleted in February. Starting it out? "Ball Sweat."
Quoted: defective yeti: The Musings of Matthew Baldwin, Pretty Okay Guy
- eric | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 26 2007 | amazon.com, startup, amapedia, wikipedia, launch
Amazon has launched a product wiki site.
Quoted: Amazon has just released a new Wikipedia clone, called Amapedia. It's described as "a community for sharing information about the products you like the most." So far Amapedia ...
- eric | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 01 2006 | video, wikipedia, funny, The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert
click to playGreat Colbert segment on Wikipedia ended up hosing Wikipedia's elephant entries for a while.
"The truth is whatever we agree on."
Quoted: In his popular The Word segment, Stephen Colbert features Wikipedia, analyzing its Truthiness value and the application of Wikiality on ALL information.
- eric | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 10 2006 | wikipedia, ipod, apple
Sweet! I'm gonna put the wikipedia on my ipod and see how useful it is.
- eric | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 28 2005 | Che Guevara, wikipedia, Motorcycle Diaries, research
Saw some recent Dots on Che Guevara and always realized I wanted to figure out more about him. The wikipedia article is pretty long and there is a great list of resources / references at the end.
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