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...what you’re asking. In terms of weird e-mails, people will write in claiming to be the son of Aleksey Vayner’s martial arts master. The weirdness has increased. Admiration, not as much. N: Blogging, not so sexy. 11.FM: There is no Wikipedia page for you. How do you guys feel about this, and do you think there will be one for you guys in the future?C: I think that if someone else wanted to set it up we definitely wouldn’t object. We also want to put in a plug that...
...terms of conceptualizing the whole thing and organizing its production? AM: Conceptualizing the minis has been great! Since you don’t have to produce as much material, you can do slightly more nuanced topics than a regular issue, focusing on slightly narrower topics such as cigarettes, porn, Wikipedia and rich people. Basically what I’m saying is, get ready for a soon-to-be-released mini about 16th Century Italian pottery. Doordropped: Do you think the minis are more ephemeral than the bigs? Does that run counter to the Lampoon’s dedication to timeless...
Unfortunately, Steinman and the Loaf made good; we would have been much better off if the franchise were still held hostage. The once-campy features of a typical Meat Loaf release—rock opera (Wikipedia says “Wagnerian”) vocals and orchestration, hilarious lyrics, immense sing-a-long possibility—are all absent or poorly done the third time around...
Wiki Spawns Rival New site aims for more accuracy Citizendium, a new Wikipedia-like online encyclopedia, has debuted in limited beta testing. Anyone can write an entry (apply at citizendium.org) but editing is limited to chosen experts...
...inclusion in official software releases. Sometimes people try to submit “junk code” and vandalize Apache, but such submissions rarely pass preliminary stages of review and certainly never affect any final product.Despite concerns about quality control, open-contribution projects such as arXiv, Apache, Linux, and Wikipedia have all competed well against similar proprietary initiatives for this reason: Established or presumed credibility is the main metric by which members of open cooperatives decide how much weight to attach to any contribution. Perelman’s bold claim of having proved Poincaré was taken seriously...