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Monday, December 5, 2005
7:12:00 PM EST
Hi everybody. Right now, it's snowing in the DC metro area (we're going to get a whole 1-3 inches, everyone panic!), so I'm going to post a few links until the idiot drivers (well, the other
idiot drivers) finish stripping the supermarkets of bread, toilet paper
and milk (and wouldn't you just know it -- I needed milk, too).
* Wikipedia in the News
Over at Wikipedia, the online, collaborative encyclopedia where anyone can post content and make changes (I link to articles there all the time), there have been a few mini-scandals this past week that are causing them to change how they develop content.
Previously, anonymous users were allowed to both create new entries and edit old ones; Wikipedia depended on a system of norms and self-policing to make sure all information was good, that the porn and spam was weeded out, etc.
Apparently, an anonymous user posted an entry a few months ago saying that John Seigenthaler, a former aide to Bobby Kennedy, was somehow linked to the Kennedy assassinations. Mr. Seigenthaler then threw a hissy fit, one result of which was a USA Today opinion piece last week.
Also last week, we were treated with a slapfight between Adam Curry and Dave Winer over who should get what credit in starting the whole podcasting phenomena (which, as you know, allows you to subscribe and have audio files download automatically, in the background, to a desktop or portable MP3 player.)
Mr. Curry edited the entry on Podcasting in a way that suggested he was trying to shut out Mr. Winer's role, though he later claimed it was due to incorrect information.
So, the upshot of all this drama is that anonymous users will no longer be able to create new articles (though they will still be able to edit), and people are going to be looking more closely at how and who can edit content on Wikipedia.
* The Non-Diet Diet
The AP ran a story on BYU health science professor Steven Hawks's new "Intuitive Diet" (which has it's own Intuitive Institute, coming in 2006), which basicially comes in two parts:
1. You can eat whatever you want, but only when you're hungry.
2. You have to stop eating when you're full.
(One presumes that "full" is "not hungry anymore" full, not "ohmygod, I ate so much food at Thanksgiving dinner, I thought I was going to burst" full.)
By George, it's so simple it might actually work! Anyway, read the article and see what you think.
* Top 30 Facts About Chuck Norris (contains some profanity and adult situations)
This has been floating around for a while; it's funny, in kind of a stupid-funny way: It's the top 30 "facts" from a database of user-submitted "facts" about martial arts and action star Chuck Norris. Why all the quotes around "facts"? Most of them revolve around roundhouse kicks, godlike powers and his beard. Here are some examples:
If I were ambitious, I would try to tie the Chuck Norris piece with Wikipedia, since they both rely on submitted content, but I won't.
Talk to you later. -- Joe
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Staying Off the Roads
* Wikipedia in the News
Over at Wikipedia, the online, collaborative encyclopedia where anyone can post content and make changes (I link to articles there all the time), there have been a few mini-scandals this past week that are causing them to change how they develop content.
Previously, anonymous users were allowed to both create new entries and edit old ones; Wikipedia depended on a system of norms and self-policing to make sure all information was good, that the porn and spam was weeded out, etc.
Apparently, an anonymous user posted an entry a few months ago saying that John Seigenthaler, a former aide to Bobby Kennedy, was somehow linked to the Kennedy assassinations. Mr. Seigenthaler then threw a hissy fit, one result of which was a USA Today opinion piece last week.
Also last week, we were treated with a slapfight between Adam Curry and Dave Winer over who should get what credit in starting the whole podcasting phenomena (which, as you know, allows you to subscribe and have audio files download automatically, in the background, to a desktop or portable MP3 player.)
Mr. Curry edited the entry on Podcasting in a way that suggested he was trying to shut out Mr. Winer's role, though he later claimed it was due to incorrect information.
So, the upshot of all this drama is that anonymous users will no longer be able to create new articles (though they will still be able to edit), and people are going to be looking more closely at how and who can edit content on Wikipedia.
* The Non-Diet Diet
The AP ran a story on BYU health science professor Steven Hawks's new "Intuitive Diet" (which has it's own Intuitive Institute, coming in 2006), which basicially comes in two parts:
1. You can eat whatever you want, but only when you're hungry.
2. You have to stop eating when you're full.
(One presumes that "full" is "not hungry anymore" full, not "ohmygod, I ate so much food at Thanksgiving dinner, I thought I was going to burst" full.)
By George, it's so simple it might actually work! Anyway, read the article and see what you think.
* Top 30 Facts About Chuck Norris (contains some profanity and adult situations)
This has been floating around for a while; it's funny, in kind of a stupid-funny way: It's the top 30 "facts" from a database of user-submitted "facts" about martial arts and action star Chuck Norris. Why all the quotes around "facts"? Most of them revolve around roundhouse kicks, godlike powers and his beard. Here are some examples:
A blind man once stepped on Chuck Norris' shoe. Chuck replied, "Don't you know who I am? I'm Chuck Norris!" The mere mention of his name cured this man blindness. Sadly the first, last, and only thing this man ever saw, was a fatal roundhouse delivered by Chuck Norris.
Chuck Norris can make a woman climax by simply pointing at her and saying "booya".Like I said, stupid-funny stuff.
If I were ambitious, I would try to tie the Chuck Norris piece with Wikipedia, since they both rely on submitted content, but I won't.
Talk to you later. -- Joe
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LAWSUIT ACCUSES AOL OF ILLEGAL BILLING
AOL's business practices are paying off... I'm sure their advertisers are proud to be associated with a company who engages in their brand of business practices.
Read the story here:
http://journals.aol.com/armandt/sense/entries/830 -
hehe.. Chuck Norris is a funny man.. sont freeze to death in DC
nat -
Hmm one of our own gets his journal tosed for things like this.. Corrections not like this, his was a medical link.
Why does this one sided unfairness not surprise me. -
Oh, to be able to change the "content" on some parts of AOL. Those Wikipedia people are so damn lucky.
12/8/05 5:16 PM