https://gizmodo.com/jimmy-wales-wikiped ... 1849354774
Keep a wastebasket or vomit bag nearby while reading this, because it's classic Jimbo self-regard. His Royal Majesty Speaketh.
PS: this is doubly hilarious for another little-known reason: the current owners of Gizmodo Media Group have been running it into the ground. I understand their click traffic is about ONE HALF TO ONE THIRD of what it was five years ago; and dozens of their longtime contributing writers have bailed out in the past year. Haven't seen any "official announcements", just mutterings in comment areas. Last year there was a stink about Jim Rich, the guy they hired to "relaunch" Deadspin after nearly all the staff quit. He also resigned after squabbling with the equity-fund assholes who own GMG. Or "G/O Media" or whatever it's called now.
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Re: Gizmodo interviews Jimbo for their 20th anniversary
Gizmodo was bankrupted and silenced by the creative application of Florida's bizarre-o defamation laws and has never been the same.
"Critics have argued that Thiel's money gives other billionaires a blueprint for how to silence media outlets they dislike." Forbes
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdrange ... 703b3b51c5
It's all part of what I call "the narrowing" or the "highlander effect" there can be only one online encyclopedia, a few media companies, one search engine, and three internet providers. You can read any encyclopedia you can find on Google, oh by the way the only faux-encyclopedia searchable on Google is Wikipedia.
AS to Wales - Wales forgot to mention his days as a failed pornographer - but he does inadvertent acknowledge "the narrowing" two times in this short article. Wales does not understand it! or take responsibility for the narrowing of information and truth.
The narrowing is something Wales acknowledges in regards to news services; "there used to be two local newspapers, now there’s one, and it only comes out three times a week. It’s largely the AP newswire, and it’s edited from 100 miles away. They may have two journalists locally when there used to be ten. So I think that is a real problem. ."
But he does not see how "the narrowing" adversely affects the parrot farm that is Wikipedia in that there are less sources to echo. Nor does he grock that a bunch of folks making up wire stories in an office somewhere would adversely effect the quality of Wikipedia's parrot farm.
And here we go Wales mentions narrowing again; ... "It’s not hard to imagine a world where" (Aol, prodigy, et al) "one of those got just enough of an edge to become the default platform for everything. And then you would suddenly have this one centralized monolith."
And the one centralized monolith he fails to mention is Google with Wikipedia fully integrated as its lapdog.
The article is fluff and he is very detached from reality. .
PS my HOA brandishes Fla's defamation laws in its "code of conduct" -Does not damage the character, integrity, good will, property, and the community’s view - (local and/or the broader community)
If Wikipedia could be sued for defamation, if section 230 was reformed or eliminated, they would be done.
"Critics have argued that Thiel's money gives other billionaires a blueprint for how to silence media outlets they dislike." Forbes
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdrange ... 703b3b51c5
It's all part of what I call "the narrowing" or the "highlander effect" there can be only one online encyclopedia, a few media companies, one search engine, and three internet providers. You can read any encyclopedia you can find on Google, oh by the way the only faux-encyclopedia searchable on Google is Wikipedia.
AS to Wales - Wales forgot to mention his days as a failed pornographer - but he does inadvertent acknowledge "the narrowing" two times in this short article. Wales does not understand it! or take responsibility for the narrowing of information and truth.
The narrowing is something Wales acknowledges in regards to news services; "there used to be two local newspapers, now there’s one, and it only comes out three times a week. It’s largely the AP newswire, and it’s edited from 100 miles away. They may have two journalists locally when there used to be ten. So I think that is a real problem. ."
But he does not see how "the narrowing" adversely affects the parrot farm that is Wikipedia in that there are less sources to echo. Nor does he grock that a bunch of folks making up wire stories in an office somewhere would adversely effect the quality of Wikipedia's parrot farm.
And here we go Wales mentions narrowing again; ... "It’s not hard to imagine a world where" (Aol, prodigy, et al) "one of those got just enough of an edge to become the default platform for everything. And then you would suddenly have this one centralized monolith."
And the one centralized monolith he fails to mention is Google with Wikipedia fully integrated as its lapdog.
The article is fluff and he is very detached from reality. .
PS my HOA brandishes Fla's defamation laws in its "code of conduct" -Does not damage the character, integrity, good will, property, and the community’s view - (local and/or the broader community)
If Wikipedia could be sued for defamation, if section 230 was reformed or eliminated, they would be done.
Wikipedia - "Barely competent and paranoid. There’s a hell of a combination."