Ray Saintonge wrote:
Daniel R. Tobias wrote:
Stephen Colbert did another of his ridicule jobs on Wikipedia, this time centered on WikiScanner, and how it's evil because it engages in "outing" of the online personas of... no, not individual Wikipedians, but corporations, which are people with rights too. How dare that evil attack site expose that Exxon is creating an online personality in which it's a friend of the environment?
My impression is that Colbert is actually pro-Wikipedia. He'll make mincemeat out of anyone who doesn't grasp his kind of humour. When he was on Jimbo showed himself able to roll with the punches. By contrast when Colbert asked Andrew (Cult of the Amateur) Keen what he thought of Wikipedia, Keen appeared very uncomfortable. Keen's pomposity is easily deflated. Someone without a sense of humour that appears on Colbert would do just as well to appear on Jerry Springer.
Yes, I talked to him backstage after the show. He's a huge fan. And a really nice guy.
--Jimbo