"Mr Know It All is giving up billions" -today's Sunday Times. Deferential profile of the great man 'would rather be a carpenter than an architect'; "I've absolutely no idea, I know about as much as the next guy".
It's half to be expected, given the 10th anniversary. But half our fault. I meant to sketch out an article for one of the British dailies, but never got round to it. I turned down an interview with Radio 4 (frankly I was too embarassed to have my family and friends know I am involved with Wikipedia, but that idea is for another thread).
Is there any way of turning off this stream of diarrhea? The "comments campaign" clearly hasn't worked - not enough people read these. What is needed is PR for the other 'Wikipedia Story' on US or British or other national media. Any ideas?
It's not like it's all our fault by any means, but this anusversary spate of viral PR is just another measure of how badly The Wikipedia Review is falling down on the job of educating the public about the real nature of Wikipedia, Wikia, and the Wikimedia Foundation.
Now, back to our regularly scheduled Akadummy Awards Festivities …
Jon
It's still disheartening to see how myopic, amnesiac and sheepish the lamestream mediocracy has become.
In the entire daisy chain circle jerk, http://mashable.com/2011/01/15/wikipedia-10-years-survival/.
It's almost like nothing has happened since 2006...Essjay...Doren, Mazoli's, Marsden...even the pr0n war from last year, all ancient history now down the memory hole.
Where have you gone Cade Metz? The Review turns its lonley eyes to you...oooo.
But if l'histoire se répète, Jimbeau and his eunuchs will smoke all this crack crap up, wash it down with their patented Fool-Aide, start thinking they can do no wrong again and then do something embarrassingly, colossally stoopid. And then...out come ze volves! Unt ze knives! Unt ze volves mit knives! Oh sweet day that will be.
In the meantime, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12200725, a great actress and a great lady whom I shall miss a lot more than Dikipedia when it finally succumbs.
If the Wikipedia Review can scrape together $125,000 a year for me, I'll be happy to go full-time on the Wikipedia criticism front.
This too shall pass. Heimdall will sound his horn, by and by.