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Photo Cover: Jimmy Wales, Josie Cory,
Missy Rounthwaite, Troy Cory
Bottom Photo Cover: DCIA Panel: Benjamin
Masse, Founder & CEO, AdSong;
Alex Limberis, COO, Syabas
Technology; Steve Lerner, Founder
& CEO, P2P Cleaner; Daniel Leon,
SVP, Bus. Development, DigiMeld;
David Klein, Executive VP, Centris;
Rick Buonincontri, CEO, Solid State
Networks; Jimmy Wales, Founder of
Wikipedia; Troy Cory, ePublisher
TVI, Author and Entertainer;
Lucas
Mast, Senior Manager, PR, Yahoo -
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Story;
Josie Cory, Publisher/Editor, TVI
Magazine; Missy Rounthwaite, Regional
Sales Manager, West, Wikia; Ron Berry,
E-Commerce Advisor, Isle Of Man;
Sari Lafferty, Business Affairs,
Distributed Computing Industry Association
(DCIA). CLICK
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Anyone
who knows Wikipedia will love Jimmy
Wales
"People do what they want,"
said Widipedia's founder at the recent Digital
Hollywood Spring keynote address. "There is no
master plan what people are interested in."
The question is, how can we partner with people to
have a symbiotic realationship. We are founded on
usability of software with 40,000 geeks (not
computer geeks). The Wiki model got good at
traditional core demographics. We see outside that
geek fandom world.
We made
it ourselves!" is the core of the community pride
and editing wars can be solved through
conversation. Cool of a bit and restart the
dialogue! About Jimmy Wales, founder of
Wikipedia / tviNews - May 4,
2005.
Crispin
Sartwell of Dickinson College in Carlisle,
Pennsylvania says Wikipedia is the best
Encyclopedias -- whether paper (Britannica, for
example) or software (Encarta) -- are intended to
be representations of the scope of human knowledge
at the moment of their publication. This idea, of
course, has a long history. But the most
interesting thing about it may be its future, as
represented by the magnificent, nonprofit
Wikipedia.
"Wiki" is the Hawaiian word
for quick, and it refers to a website that can be
updated easily by anyone from any Web browser. The
first wiki armature was developed in 1995, and
Wikipedia -- the brainchild of one Jimmy Wales --
was founded in 2001. Under Wales' brilliant
conception, anyone can go into Wikipedia
(wikipedia.org) and create a new article or edit an
old one: It is entirely accessible and entirely
alterable.
This is anarchy, of course,
and completely antithetical to the encyclopedic
tradition, which has emphasized a kind of solemn
definitiveness and authority. Britannica and
Encarta, for instance, not only employ experts to
write their articles but subject everything they
publish to a rigorous review process. At Wikipedia,
you (or any old maniac) can march right onto the
"nuclear fusion" page and add your thoughts.
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But as Wikipedia says about
itself, the point is not that it's hard to make
mistakes but that it's easy to correct them.
Because thousands of people -- ordinary, unpaid,
outside participants -- monitor and edit Wikipedia,
errors and vandalism are often corrected in
seconds. One feature of the site is a list of
recently updated pages, so that one can keep track
of changes. One can even revert to a previous
version of an article if mistaken or malevolent
parties have messed it
up.
The result is not perfect. In one brief
instance, a character from "Star Wars" was labeled
Benedict XVI. But such is the exception, not the
rule, and usually quickly rectified. Overall, the
encyclopedia gets ever larger and ever more
accurate. The English version has grown to more
than half a million entries, and in checking the
"recent changes" section I once found a dozen or
more revisions every minute. The site also provides
contexts in which changes can be proposed and
discussed among writers.
So is it to be trusted? Does
it have the credibility of Britannica? Well, I have
monitored over a decent period a number of entries
on matters about which I know something and have
found them almost invariably accurate. And I have
watched some of them grow, becoming ever more
elaborate and
interlinked.
In fact, open architecture is
in some sense the only possible way to do what an
encyclopedia purports to do: represent the state of
human knowledge in real time. Such a project is by
its nature so huge that it requires what Wikipedia
has: thousands of experts, editors, checkers and so
on with expertise in different fields working over
a period of years. Also, Wikipedia, unlike the
World Book, for example, or even Encarta, is
updated continuously. When we use the term "public
property," we usually mean state property, but
Wikipedia compromises the concept of ownership
without dispossessing anyone: It is truly public
property.
What is perhaps most
fascinating about Wikipedia is its demonstration in
practical anarchy. It is an ever-shifting,
voluntary, collaborative enterprise. If it is in
the long run successful, it would show that people
can make amazing things together without being
commanded, constrained, taxed, bribed or punished.
There are people who want to
deface or even destroy Wikipedia. The right-wing
blogger Ace of Spades -- out of mischief and
because he heard Wikipedia's operators were
liberals -- recently called on its readers to
"punk" the site to put up as much misinformation
and nonsense as possible. Other blogs gleefully
expose errors, even if those defects persist only
for a few minutes.
If the vandals are successful,
they'll more or less confirm the common wisdom that
people are too evil and miserable to be allowed to
govern themselves.
But if Wikipedia grows into
the greatest reference work ever made, it will
suggest that great things are possible when you
merely let people go and see what happens.
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04h/Thank
You Yahoo for the Interview with Lucas Mast of
Yahoo. at
Digital Hollywood. CLICK
FOR MORE LUCAS
MAST
TVI talks to
Lucas Mast, of Yahoo. Even
while the show was going on during my
interview
... The
storyline at one point headed to his website
Archive of Lucas
Mast's Posts - One
man's trash Posted April 29th, 2008 at 4:34 pm by
Lucas Mast, Connected Life / Filed in: Video,
Working at Yahoo!, Yahoo! For
Good
Anyone who knows me knows that I love
sneakers. Ok, you might even say I am sneaker
obsessed. From the walk-in closet with 160+ pairs
of shoes, to my blog SneakerBlogger, to the custom
Nike's in Yahoo! colors I created for CES earlier
this year, I try to find any way I can to
incorporate them into my personal and professional
life. So when I saw that Yahoo! was going to be
hosting a Freecycle-inspired "Free is Good Fair"
for employees on campus today (a belated Earth Day
swap meet) and that one of the items being donated
would be Chief Yahoo David Filo's signature Adidas
sneakers, I started cleaning out my
closet.
Much to my wife's delight, among other
things I contributed were five pairs of sneakers
and athletic shoes and I was able to actually watch
people pick them up and give them a new home. (Yes,
people WILL wear other people's shoes )
Hopefully they will get some great use and their
new owners will think hard about what THEY could
give up to turn their personal trash into someone
else's treasure.
I'm told Yahoos brought in more than
2,000 items from closets and basements throughout
the Bay Area that might otherwise have been
destined for landfills. The more interesting things
I saw included a vintage map of Silicon Valley
businesses from 2000, a red lacy bra (which seemed
to disappear quickly), last-generation Tivos,
Rockem Sockem Robots, vacuum cleaners, a complete
set of Star Trek: Next Generation VHS tapes, bunny
slippers, fleeces galore, Yahoo! schwag (Yahoo!
Chicago stickers, anyone?), and gently used
sporting equipment. Items that had not seen the
light of day for years were suddenly adopted by new
guardians, who promised to put them into immediate
use. Although I think the snow skis might have to
wait until next season CLICK
FOR MORE STORY LUCAS
MAST
CLICK
FOR MORE STORY ABOUT - The All-Wheel Association -
New Leadership and the
10
Golden Rules for Quad/ATV
Drivers
The
DAV (German all-wheel Association) recommends, in
cooperation with the renowned ATV / Quad
manufacturers and dealers following 10 TOP rules.
These were drawn up in a working group,
because it is so far still no uniform regulations
for Germany. Do you trust any dealer who sold you
as an argument for driving a ATV / quad without a
helmet or protective clothing offers. To protect
your own life, they should be wearing helmets and
clothing itself as an indispensable requirement
imposed. Who does not, harms not only himself but
also the image of all other ATV / quad-riders. For
this reason, the German four-wheel Association
published a brochure with the top 10 rules. Authors
Website - English: Information, Kurt
Sigl Authors
Website - German: Information, Kurt
Sigl
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