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Why Wikipedia Must Jettison Its Anti-Elitism

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Wikipedia has started to hit the big time. Accordingly, several critical articles have come out, including “The Faith-Based Encyclopedia” by a former editor-in-chief of Britannica and a very widely-syndicated AP article that was given such titles as “When Information Access Is So Easy, Truth Can Be Elusive”. These articles are written by people who appear not to appreciate the merits of Wikipedia fully. I do, however; I co-founded Wikipedia. (I have since left the project.) Wikipedia does have two big problems, and attention to them is long overdue. These problems could be eliminated by eliminating a single root problem. If the project’s managers are not willing to solve it, I fear a fork (a new edition under new management, for the non-techies reading this) will probably be necessary.
…excerpt from: www.kuro5hin.org…

how to be creative pdf

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If you have even the smallest twinge of creative tendencies, read this manifesto now.

The “How To Be Creative” PDF at ChangeThis.com… just hit #4 most downloaded manifesto. Thanks, Everybody!

[*Ahem* I hope you’ll download it, if you haven’t already, Thanks again…]

I seem to be making progress on the book front. Got publishing interest etc.

Book royalties being the miserable and pathetic little things that they are, the idea is not to live off them. The idea is to hopefully be able to turn one out of say, a thousand readers into proper, long-term, Hughtrain clients.

“Leveraging Upstream”, I believe is the business-speak term for it.

[THOUGHT:] The more I live in this Cluetrain/Hughtrain/Woo-woo-train universe of mine, the harder I find relating to the old universe I left behind. Anybody else having similar feelings?

…excerpt from: www.gapingvoid.com…