Wikipedia dangers

[Daniel Julius]

On 4/30/07, John BAILEY <JBAILEY at theage.com.au> wrote:
>
> Somebody recently told me about a tertiary communications course
> hereabouts where students are asked to create false wikipedia entries
> and try to get them online. Culture jamming or something, I guess.



 Man, it seems like there are better, more deserving, cultural targets to
quote-unquote Jam besides Wikipedia...  That's unfortunate.  If it were some
sort of experiment to see how long false articles could survive the
wiki-community's roving eye, then that seems like it would serve a better
purpose, but this?  Oi vey

P.S.  Didnt someone edit the Pynchon wiki page some time ago to include a
version of his biography 'sung' to the tune of the theme song of Fresh
Prince of Bel-Air?!?!  ("Now this is a story all about how/my life got
flipped, turned upside down, u.s.w.)  Fucking amazing; if it was anyone on
this list, fess up please, I want to buy you a shot or somethin
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