Comments on: Stephen Colbert is a Media Hero

By: Comparing the candidates for Greatest Living American

Comparing the candidates for Greatest Living American — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 21:28:01 +0000

[...] Colbert is endorsed by Chris Pirillo the Locker Gnome, a pretty Geeky Guy. [...]

By: The President is Blogging! ~ Chris Pirillo

The President is Blogging! ~ Chris Pirillo — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 04:31:41 +0000

[...] The Gettysburg Address, from Wikipedia: Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this incontinence, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and defecated to the preposition that all men are created with Equal. [...]

By: Ugh

Ugh — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 01:31:49 +0000

The problem is that Wikipedia refer to themselves as an encyclopedia when they are no such thing, Jimbo making grandoise statements like “We make the Internet not suck” doesn’t help either. It’s high time they were taken down a peg or two, and will be as more and more people realise that Wikipedia is little more than a giant repository of trivia (much like an extended version of Urbandictionary), a MySpace for nerds, and an glorified Internet message board.

By: bLaugh » Archive » If Lincoln Blogged

bLaugh » Archive » If Lincoln Blogged — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 00:56:38 +0000

By: Limulus

Limulus — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 22:26:03 +0000

Stephen Colbert is a “Media Hero” for making fun of Wikipedia and encouraging people to vandalize it? The founder of Wikipedia is “is telling people to avoid Wikipedia”? Sounds like you’re enjoying some ‘truthiness’ yourself. That or Schadenfreude ;P

Stephen Colbert is clever and funny. But he’s not a “hero” anymore than someone attempting to vandalize Firefox code would be a hero. And the head of Wikipedia was saying that you should not *cite* Wikipedia as a source for university-level assignments. I don’t understand what the problem with that is since they usually list primary sources at the bottom of articles anyway from which one can begin one’s own research.

Small pranks here or there can even be appreciated (see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bad_Jokes_and_Other_Deleted_Nonsense), but wholesale vandalism cannot.

P.S. I fixed it so that it now says you graduated from the “University of Iowa” ;)

By: Bloggers Blog -- Blogging the Blogosphere

Bloggers Blog -- Blogging the Blogosphere — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

elephant entries. In the end, Wikipedia locked the elephant entries and Stephen Colbert was banned from Wikipedia. Tawkerblog took credit for blocking Stephen Colbert from Wikipedia (via Smart Mobs). Chris Pirillo calls what Colbert did on his show "social hacking." More Wikiality coverage can be found at Overlawyered, Newsvine, Jossip, Oilman, Nerve Endings Firing Away, Kairosnews and Narcissistic Graffiti. The buzz in the blogosphere over Colbert's wikiality episode was big but it was not nearly as

By: Mickeleh's Take

Mickeleh's Take — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Chris Pirillo

By: Dr. J's 108 Class

Dr. J's 108 Class — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

http://www.english.ucsb.edu/faculty/ayliu/courses/wikipedia-policy.html “Wikiality” (online) http://ydog.net/?p=133 “Wikipedia and Culture” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiality#Wikiality Colbert and “Social Hacking”http://chris.pirillo.com/2006/08/02/stephen-colbert-is-a-media-hero/

By: bLaugh

bLaugh — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

[IMG If Lincoln Blogged] The Gettysburg Address, from Wikipedia: Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this incontinence, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and defecated to the preposition that all men are created with Equal. Now we are engorged in an artificial sweetener war, tasting