Just read on BoingBoing: A guy has his girlfriend sew him a GNU costume, and he plans to use it to distribute Ubuntu CDs at the – this is what caught my eye! – Zürich main station!! ¹
Reminds me of the joke RadomirDopieralski told on #oddmuse the other day: Do you know about the *dyslexic satanist*? No? He sold his soul to Santa.
Another blog entry ² brings me to AaronSwartz’s site where he analyses Wikipedia contributions ³ and finds what is certainly true for me: Most new content is from anonymous strangers passing by and is then massaged into the site by the core group. The few edits I’ve done to Wikipedia basically worked that way. And I haven’t felt any kind of “ownership” for the pages I touched. Other people have been taking care of them, eg. I added the first image to Somnathpura and never went back.
Reading blogs such as these is a sure way to waste hours. I liked the library pictures. ⁴ One of them was a library in St. Gallen, Switzerland. Maybe Switzerland is in fact part of this world... 😉
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I also subscribe to the point of Aaron. I had the same story with my small contributions to the Wikipedia. The changes are mainly for typo, link or forms. So attracting “one shot” editor/contributor is quite important for a lot of Wiki. The only problem is to welcome them and block the “one shot” spammer... always an issue of balance.
– adulau 2006-09-05 20:37 UTC