I went over to Harvard last night for David Weinberger's talk about his new book, Everything Is Miscellaneous.
One part of his talk was about Wikipedia and how it drives experts away because of the need for citations for everything. I hope I got that right... I've got his book and will read it to see if I can better summarize what he was saying. He had really funny pictures that made it very clear.... I was extremely frustrated trying to add information on Wikipedia and fought a long and hard fight to get the top definition the way I thought it should be. On May 1, 2007, at 9:21 AM, Heath wrote: > The only thing this discussion has done for me, is confirm the fact > that I would never want to contribute to Wikipedia. > > You know what's funny and sad in this, a tool that should be used to > help someone, to guide someone, to give them a source to find out > information is instead worthless, look at the > page, "unverified", "disputed", etc and etc, > > oh, wait, those are gone, no they are back, ok, now everything is > gone, no...wait, it's back....oh, nope its gone...oh, back again > > how could ANYONE get anything useful out of this bickering and back > and forth squalibling.....it's sad.....just sad..... > > Heath > http://batmangeek.com > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Tom Gosse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Ah yes, the classic case of circular definitions. That is > repeating the >> defined term within the definition itself. This is the kind of > writing that >> my seventh grade English teacher would have crossed out with a big > red >> pencil. >> >> Irish Hermit ( a hermit that is Irish) aka Tom >> >> _____ >> >> From: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> On Behalf Of wallythewonderdog >> Sent: Tuesday, 01 May, 2007 12:21 AM >> To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com >> Subject: [videoblogging] Re: Video Blog Wikipedia Entry >> >> OK, fwiw: >> >> I did not get past this gem: >> >> "There's one catch though, it's an encyclopedia which means the >> content must be encyclopedic." >> >> Now, arguments/debates/discussions in this group are worth their >> weight in electrons, I know, but somebody PLEASE tell me no one >> currently participating here thinks this any more than drunky wunky >> talk....What did I miss? >> >> WtW >> >> >> >> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >> > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > -- Steve Garfield http://SteveGarfield.com
