It seems fairly obvious that one man cannot and should not try to both serve the fiduciary interests and protect the corporate missions of two different companies that compete against each other in the same marketplace. Eric Schmidt got it. Will Jimmy Wales ever get it?
Mike Ilitch is the founder of the Little Caesars pizza chain, as well as owner of both the Detroit Tigers and the Detroit Red Wings. Despite perhaps 7,000 page views of his biography per month, Wikipedia has tried and tried, but still botches where Mike Ilitch was born.
A list of simple tips for getting the most from your Wikipedia reading
Group collaboration is not always a bad thing, especially when individuals perform specialized activities to produce a group advancement. The use of Twitter and Facebook during the recent Iranian electoral uprising also implies that a clearly defined common intent makes more effective use of these tools. Paul Wehage explores how these ideas might be more relevant to our own individual lives than we might suspect.
Political biographies of living statesmen, on the world’s most-consulted reference website, open for editing by any partisan vandal. What could possibly go wrong?
A smorgasbord of rants about various things wiki and phonelike.
The speed with which Web 2.0 came into full-blown existence is in large part the reason this latest consumer-focused media revolution has come into being free of the expected restraining forces – normally offered by order-injecting referee institutions. Hence, not only must Web 2.0 content be largely user-generated, so too the means of protecting truth and reputations.
In his book “The Wisdom of Crowds”, James Surowiecki approaches crowds with the assumption that each member, however diverse, has one thing in common: a desire to “get it right” with respect to finding solutions to whatever challenges they jointly face. But what happens when some members of the crowd want to get it wrong? Can the influence of a few outliers alter the apparent will of the masses?
When Paul Wehage initially posted on Akahele about Wikipedia and Art, it was something he thought would be only a minor curiosity which would perhaps interest a few performance artists and other specialists. However, Wikipedia Art proves to be much more explosive than one would have thought…
Akahele contributor Judd Bagley’s direct involvement notwithstanding, he feels it’s both fair and accurate to say that the events surrounding the Gary Weiss/Mantanmoreland affair were among the strangest and most polarizing in Wikipedia’s history.