What About Wikipedia Could Possibly Be Bad?
Here is a well-written, very informative article by Jaron Lanie entitled "Digital Maoism: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism. " He suggests possible dangers about the 'hive-mind' mentality, that idea that if everyone agrees about something, it must be true. He uses Wikipedia as an example of how such a reliance on collectivism can cause issues in the future. Very insightful.
Thanks to Krista for emailing this to me.
To show how fun the internet can be, here are the possible matches that come up when I type my own name into the Wikipedia search engine: The New Ghostwriter's Mystery, The 2002 Alpine Skiing World Cup Results, an Indian engineering company, and the List of Historical People Portrayed As Villians. And can you guess who is an award-winning song writer? The 29th Prez of the US of A? Aussie rules footballer? Also, my dad is a busy man, doing various important things.
All-knowing my ass! Everyone knows I'm a world famous lint collector!
Thanks to Krista for emailing this to me.
To show how fun the internet can be, here are the possible matches that come up when I type my own name into the Wikipedia search engine: The New Ghostwriter's Mystery, The 2002 Alpine Skiing World Cup Results, an Indian engineering company, and the List of Historical People Portrayed As Villians. And can you guess who is an award-winning song writer? The 29th Prez of the US of A? Aussie rules footballer? Also, my dad is a busy man, doing various important things.
All-knowing my ass! Everyone knows I'm a world famous lint collector!
posted by Kris at 7:37 PM
4 Comments:
Hey Kris:
That Calgary guy here. Did you know that one of the founders of Wikipedia has started his own site, called 'Citizendium'? He apparantly wants more control over posting (we can all thank Stephen Colbert for that one).
And for the record, the 29th prez of the u.s. of a wasn't nearly as bad as he's made out to be. Seriously! I'm not making this up, I promise!
I'm really not, he just surrounded himself with bad friends.
Just a be a Marxist Advocate: at Citizendium, who is the one controlling the posting? Who creates and/or enforces the rules of control?
I love how the 29th prez was embroiled in conflicting controversy: he was 'accused' of being part black at the same time that he was accused of being a member of the KKK. Someone must have really hated this guy.
Just tossing it out there. But when everyone agrees on something, doesn't it make it common sense then? Not really the truth though. I mean, what the hell is the truth anyways? People are standing in line to lie to me on a daily basis. Take everything with a grain of salt and dissmiss anything that seems too good to be true.
I agree that common sense and the truth are not necessarily the same thing. The concept of "Common sense" is so powerful because it makes the statement appear natural and absolute. Q:"Why do we do something a certain way?" A:"It's just common sense." We have to dig below that flippant answer to find the deeper truth(s).
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