Backpatting, Wiki-style
As the three regular readers of my blog may know, I’ve been a Wikipedia-addict for the past two years. This is, perhaps not so coincidentally how long the series Lost has been on the air. Since last year, I’ve been [...]
NYT Business: No Wikipedia, Please
As a further sign of Wikipedia’s deteriorating status in the press, journalists in the New York Times Business section are not to use Wikipedia to do fact checking, according to a memo posted on Poynter.org: 12/7/2005 10:22:30 AM From: [New [...]
Wikipedia Backlash Begins
For going on two years, I’ve been a regular contributor to one of the greatest experiments in shared knowledge: the Wikipedia. When I first wrote about the site back in February 2004, I posited: …the greatest danger to the Wikipedia’s [...]
Hi, my name is Simon, and I’m a Wikiaholic
Dear friends and strangers, I have come to reveal my true self to you. I can finally acknowledge that I am, without a doubt, a nerd. There, I’ve said it. And I feel good about it— and so should you. [...]