Interesting article from a strange-ish place
My old friend Ed, who blogs as Big Ed, sent me to this article by King Kaufman, a sports columnist for Salon.
He wrote a short piece when he noticed that he had a one-line entry made in Wikipedia and then discovered this brief entry was marked for deletion.
Then, he wrote this piece, a longer one, describing his experience with the on-line community. Here’s a big of his experience:
I found that one-sentence entry about me, laughed, and wrote a short item about it.
And of course within minutes it started getting updated, filled out. False information came and went. New factoids emerged. I’m from Los Angeles, it turns out. (True.) I once wrote that second base should be eliminated. (False.) Soon the deletion notice went away. Saved! The wisdom of crowds!
Soon there was a notation in the item that I’d written a column on Aug. 10, 2006, bemoaning the fact that my item might be deleted. Whoa, feedback loop! That was removed in short order as a “navel-gazing reference to Wikipedia.”
His discussion, while far afield of using blogs and wikis in classrooms is a good case study of one person’s interaction with the social web.
King Kaufman’s Sports Daily | Salon
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