Now, if only he'd carry the thought through
Now here's a Forest Gump moment, podcast was chosen word of the year by the editors of the New Oxford American Dictionary. "Podcast was considered for inclusion last year, but we found that not enough people were using it, or were even familiar with the concept. This year it's a completely different story. The word has finally caught up with the rest of the iPod phenomenon."
Betsy Devine is a Wikipedia editor , and exactly the kind of person who should be in that role. Now if you could quantify what makes Betsy so ideal, and then find ten thousand volunteers with the same qualifications, then you'd really have something. The current Wikipedia system, as I've observed for a long time, gives anonymous trolls way too much power, although recent incidents should help to mitigate that. And Wales has been far too dismissive of the problem in the past. It may be time to find a new leader for that community, he's been more of a hypester and a flamer than a maven for information and a realistic community leader. To be clear, the previous situation, where Wikipedia was considered authoritative, yet at the same time had such low quality, was unacceptable. Either it loses the authority, or something is done to improve the quality.
Next, I expect Dave to be utterly stunned when the pace of content addition to Wikipedia slows to a crawl. Because in Dave's world, nothing is connected, and stuff just happens.
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[] December 6, 2005 11:10:44.019
He's just mad because several times people have edited his page on Wikipedia to intone that he's an egotistical asshole, which is true.
[Mousky] December 7, 2005 8:02:04.432
"he's been more of a hypester and a flamer than a maven for information and a realistic community leader."
Takes one to know one, Dave.