Comments on: Wikipedia and Ken Lay: Not a Real Story http://www.jasonunger.com/2006/07/10/wikipedia-and-ken-lay-not-a-real-story/ Welcome to my lifestream Fri, 19 Aug 2011 17:37:25 +0000 hourly 1 By: A B http://www.jasonunger.com/2006/07/10/wikipedia-and-ken-lay-not-a-real-story/comment-page-1/#comment-14 A B Thu, 27 Jul 2006 00:06:52 +0000 http://s34902.gridserver.com/?p=32#comment-14 Wikinews is the "citizen journalism" site you're thinking of. http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikinews is the "citizen journalism" site you're thinking of.

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Main_Page

]]> By: mac http://www.jasonunger.com/2006/07/10/wikipedia-and-ken-lay-not-a-real-story/comment-page-1/#comment-13 mac Tue, 11 Jul 2006 14:54:55 +0000 http://s34902.gridserver.com/?p=32#comment-13 I love it when MSM gets its undies in a bunch over a tool/technology it doesn't fully understand. Wikipedia is not an evil reference tool set loose upon an unsuspecting (and, presumably, stupid) populace. It's a collaborative reference tool that should be used as an introductory source, not an end-all, be-all, encyclopedia. Moreover, no one at Wikipedia has ever made the claim that it's the biggest, badest, most correct reference source in the world. I often think that new technologies need to be explained in simple, cross-reference terms. For example, would a journalist understand Wikipedia if it was described as "a public first draft"? Maybe. Maybe not. But they should take a step back and learn a thing or two before mouthing off. Right. That'll happen. -- Mac I love it when MSM gets its undies in a bunch over a tool/technology it doesn't fully understand.

Wikipedia is not an evil reference tool set loose upon an unsuspecting (and, presumably, stupid) populace. It's a collaborative reference tool that should be used as an introductory source, not an end-all, be-all, encyclopedia. Moreover, no one at Wikipedia has ever made the claim that it's the biggest, badest, most correct reference source in the world.

I often think that new technologies need to be explained in simple, cross-reference terms. For example, would a journalist understand Wikipedia if it was described as "a public first draft"?

Maybe. Maybe not. But they should take a step back and learn a thing or two before mouthing off.

Right. That'll happen. — Mac

]]> By: junger http://www.jasonunger.com/2006/07/10/wikipedia-and-ken-lay-not-a-real-story/comment-page-1/#comment-12 junger Tue, 11 Jul 2006 14:47:48 +0000 http://s34902.gridserver.com/?p=32#comment-12 <p>Hah -- it's all good Wikiblog. Just glad to see I'm not the only one who was po'ed by this. </p> Hah — it's all good Wikiblog. Just glad to see I'm not the only one who was po'ed by this.

]]> By: Wikipediablog http://www.jasonunger.com/2006/07/10/wikipedia-and-ken-lay-not-a-real-story/comment-page-1/#comment-11 Wikipediablog Tue, 11 Jul 2006 02:21:32 +0000 http://s34902.gridserver.com/?p=32#comment-11 Well, shit. I wish I'd seen this before I wrote almost the same thing. =P Well, shit. I wish I'd seen this before I wrote almost the same thing. =P

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