Tuesday, October 26, 2004
What the internet is actually good for
I love this sort of thing. A wiki -- if you're not already familiar -- is a website with content that can be added to and changed by people viewing the website. Wikipedia, for example, is an online encyclopedia with entries constantly being added and updated by whoever wants to share a bit of knowledge. And studies have shown that the content is accurate; enough people are following the changes that it keeps itself honest.
So wikinews is an idea whose time has come. This has the potential to fulfill the promise of the internet as a truly open and unrestricted source of information for humanity. Brilliance.
¶ 10:10 AM
I love this sort of thing. A wiki -- if you're not already familiar -- is a website with content that can be added to and changed by people viewing the website. Wikipedia, for example, is an online encyclopedia with entries constantly being added and updated by whoever wants to share a bit of knowledge. And studies have shown that the content is accurate; enough people are following the changes that it keeps itself honest.
So wikinews is an idea whose time has come. This has the potential to fulfill the promise of the internet as a truly open and unrestricted source of information for humanity. Brilliance.
¶ 10:10 AM
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ok.
#1: that is very cool. i voted yes.
#2: i saw this post and immediately thought of you.
from: http://rising-hegemon.blogspot.com/2004/10/i-was-thinking-of-waiting-until-112-to.html
This day is called 2004 Election Day
They that go to vote this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when the day is named,
And be roused at the name of Kerry/Edwards.
They that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will on the eve thereof feast with his neighbours,
And say 'To-morrow is when we threw Bush out:'
Then will they open their wallet and show their cards.
And say 'This I used to vote upon Election day.'
Old folks forget: yet all shall be forgot,
But they'll remember with advantages
What feats they did that day: then shall their names.
Familiar in their mouths as household words
Kerry the king, Edwards and Howard Dean,
Clark, Graham and Gephardt, Sharpton, Mosely-Braun,
Be in their flowing cups freshly remember'd.
This story shall the good person teach a child;
And Election Day shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remember'd;
We many, we very very many, we band of voters;
For they today that cast their vote with me
Shall be a voter; be they ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle their condition:
And mouthbreathing freepers now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they did not win,
And hold their citizenship cheap whiles any speaks
That vote with us upon this election day.
#1: that is very cool. i voted yes.
#2: i saw this post and immediately thought of you.
from: http://rising-hegemon.blogspot.com/2004/10/i-was-thinking-of-waiting-until-112-to.html
This day is called 2004 Election Day
They that go to vote this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when the day is named,
And be roused at the name of Kerry/Edwards.
They that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will on the eve thereof feast with his neighbours,
And say 'To-morrow is when we threw Bush out:'
Then will they open their wallet and show their cards.
And say 'This I used to vote upon Election day.'
Old folks forget: yet all shall be forgot,
But they'll remember with advantages
What feats they did that day: then shall their names.
Familiar in their mouths as household words
Kerry the king, Edwards and Howard Dean,
Clark, Graham and Gephardt, Sharpton, Mosely-Braun,
Be in their flowing cups freshly remember'd.
This story shall the good person teach a child;
And Election Day shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remember'd;
We many, we very very many, we band of voters;
For they today that cast their vote with me
Shall be a voter; be they ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle their condition:
And mouthbreathing freepers now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they did not win,
And hold their citizenship cheap whiles any speaks
That vote with us upon this election day.
you have to send out an email to all your friends!
and "fiat lux" is probably reading it... i think he just doesnt like to post on other people's blogs.
glad you liked the shakespeare thing :)
and "fiat lux" is probably reading it... i think he just doesnt like to post on other people's blogs.
glad you liked the shakespeare thing :)
He that makes a thing too fine, breaks it.
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