Re: [WikiEN-l] So much for the Obama scandal

2009-03-12 Thread stevertigo
There is probably some truth in that. Most people who deal with online identity have to deal with the online disinhibition effect (ODE), and many of us have certain experience of expressing ourselves using less-than-ideal concepts. But that's no less true for the few partisans trying to turn the

Re: [WikiEN-l] So much for the Obama scandal

2009-03-11 Thread Matthew Brown
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 3:53 PM, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote: It's coverage in the actual media rather than blogs isn't very widespread. It is however cheap and easy to write so there is a significant incentive for media organisations to pick it up. And the media loves to talk about the

Re: [WikiEN-l] So much for the Obama scandal

2009-03-11 Thread David Gerard
2009/3/11 Matthew Brown mor...@gmail.com: On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 3:53 PM, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote: It's coverage in the actual media rather than blogs isn't very widespread. It is however cheap and easy to write so there is a significant incentive for media organisations to pick it up.

Re: [WikiEN-l] So much for the Obama scandal

2009-03-10 Thread Nathan
This one is funny: http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2009/03/09/postscript-to-world-net-dailywikipedia-editorial Can't say I've ever heard of WebProNews before, but this columnist is revising an earlier piece criticising WND. He also says I tend to think philosophies are prisons robbing us of any

Re: [WikiEN-l] So much for the Obama scandal

2009-03-10 Thread Charles Matthews
geni wrote: 2009/3/10 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com: http://gawker.com/5167585/right+wing-writer-invents-his-own-obama-wikipedia-scandal - d. Doesn't really matter. It's been picked up by larger and somewhat respectable right wing sources (Telegraph) so the truth of the matter

Re: [WikiEN-l] So much for the Obama scandal

2009-03-10 Thread geni
2009/3/10 Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com: Interesting ... last I heard the world economy was in meltdown, there is no free-market solution in sight yet, and state intervention is running out of zeroes. And what really interests the media is stories about other smaller parts

Re: [WikiEN-l] So much for the Obama scandal

2009-03-10 Thread Chris Down
@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 3:25 pm Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] So much for the Obama scandal This one is funny: http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2009/03/09/postscript-to-world-net-dailywikipedia-editorial Can't say I've ever heard of WebProNews before, but this columnist is revising