New video about Wikipedia & Web 2.0
Some Dutch filmmakers made a documentary (48 minutes), in English, titled “The Truth according to Wikipedia.” It’s pretty good, but I’m too close to the story to be able to offer anything like an objective opinion. It’s pretty heavy on Andrew Keen and his over-the-top yet strangely entertaining criticism of the Internet. I’m in there, talking about Wikipedia; no mention of CZ, unfortunately, but you can’t ask for everything.
[…] Sterkenburg posted a follow-up post here on Sunday which received 17 comments (so far) and even Larry Sanger (from Citizendium), one of the people interviewed in the documentary, pitches […]
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I saw the film on Dutch internet television [Larry with subtitles
] and heard lots of talk about participation and social interaction. What I missed is the observation that most Web 2.0 contributors consider their anonimity (use of nickname) one of their basic human rights. I was raised with the (now apparently obsolete) norm that anonymous letters and phone calls are indecent. How Web 2.0 has changed that! You can read on Wikipedia’s discussion pages lively social interactions between nicknamed persons, who may well be 180 degrees different from their WP user descriptions, and nobody seems to care.
Comment by Paul Wormer — April 8, 2008 @ 1:16 pm