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« on: December 28, 2006, 03:01:56 PM »

Just as a matter of interest I've just noticed a couple of issues ago the magazine "Computer Active" ran a tutorial on making entries in "Wikipedia" - the online encyclopedia that the public can update/ initiate entries.

The writer said he would choose a listed entry where there was nothing other than the heading and add his own narrative.

He went on to say he'd choose something he knew something about and he choose.... Fairport Convention - "Jewel in the Crown" - surprisingly, small world i thought.

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« Reply #1 on: January 02, 2007, 10:29:02 PM »

I love Colbert's response to wikiapedia. He said he loved its "truthyness". He changed a entry about washington having owned slaves and then encouraged the crowd to make changes on the elephant section. He went on to say, if enough people beleive it, it is a truth.  But a fun place to visit if you carry some salt.
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« Reply #2 on: January 02, 2007, 10:41:26 PM »


 He went on to say, if enough people beleive it, it is a truth.  


And then it gets called religion....  
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« Reply #3 on: January 03, 2007, 12:43:13 AM »



 He went on to say, if enough people beleive it, it is a truth.  


And then it gets called religion....  


Amen to that.
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« Reply #4 on: January 05, 2007, 06:54:23 PM »


Just as a matter of interest I've just noticed a couple of issues ago the magazine "Computer Active" ran a tutorial on making entries in "Wikipedia" - the online encyclopedia that the public can update/ initiate entries.

The writer said he would choose a listed entry where there was nothing other than the heading and add his own narrative.

He went on to say he'd choose something he knew something about and he choose.... Fairport Convention - "Jewel in the Crown" - surprisingly, small world i thought.

Paul


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