I’ve written two articles (I and II) on Wikipedia and Colbert in the last week and a half and promise to you that this will be the final chapter of my Colbert Report discussion. Pt. III of the trilogy if you will. But there have been some interesting developments since then so here I am yet again. Since the last article, Wikipedia has been brought up briefly by interviewee Wes Boyd, co-creator of Moveon.org (who themselves have a youtube satire about Colbert) and those flying toasters you may have seen on your desktop circa 1994. The brief mention was simply another comment on some false statistics Colbert claimed were true and it didn’t even cause the slightest ripple on the Internet. But Wikipedia on Colbert was so last week. His most recent call on his legions of fans came a few nights ago during his “Tip of the Hat, Wag of the Finger”. It was during this segment that he discussed how an Internet poll was being used to decide the name of a Hungarian bridge that is being built over the Danube. The task at hand was simple, go to the website of the bridge and name the bridge “The Stephen Colbert Bridge”. Shortly after the announcement, the site was overloaded with traffic (as one would imagine) and was no longer accessible. So there you go, Colbert is at it again, the pop culture of Stephen Colbert continues. How much power does this one man have? How large is his army? (continued on pg. M3…)
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Fresh off of writing an article on the Pop Culture of Wikipedia a few nights ago (Monday), I tuned into the Colbert Report and realized he was initiating his own type of popular influence onto the site. With his next to next to latest, “The WØRD”, he defined another word that will surely make as many headlines as last year’s “truthiness”:
Wikiality: the method of making something up, but getting enough people to agree with you so it becomes reality. (continued on pg. M2…)
Aug 1, 2006
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I promote Wikipedia to practically everyone I come across. I’m the guy who is unknowingly talking about it 20 minutes into practically every conversation I find myself in, regardless of the original topic. I do this because I feel the site is a crucially necessary step in showing the world that the internet is part of something much bigger than a series of tubes. This entry, however, isn’t about universal praise.
Something that I’ve been noticing more and more has been the tendency for editors to focus entirely too much on current events that are on the front pages of every news site or headlining every CNN broadcast. An overkill of additions and revisions that tends to keep an article up to the minute, but in turn, relevant for practically the same amount of time. I do not mean to condemn the actions of these contributors, but I see a certain bit of wasted potential. An example that I will turn to for the time being, mostly because its rightful prominence in the news today, is the conflict between Hezbollah and Israel. This article isn’t about the aforementioned conflict, I could very well have focused on Hurricane Katrina, the Indonesian Tsunami or several other events that have been felt around the world in recent years. (continued on pg. M1…)
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