http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article1637535.ece
I spoke to the BBC and the Press Association on the phone. The BBC wanted a telly piece. So I went to the Borders in Oxford Circus, and Borders kindly let the BBC film there. The interview, Rory Callan-Jones, asked me the same question about reliability three or four times until I got it down to a soundbite :-)
They filmed a few walking-around bits in the reference section. Oddly enough, Borders don't sell printed encyclopedias any more. So we decided the Oxford dictionaries would be suitable (I mentioned how the OED used a model like ours starting 150 years ago - volunteer contributions).
This should be on BBC1 six o'clock news this evening. Probably a seven- to ten-second clip of me. That took an hour to make. Maybe I might actually not end up cut this time ;-)
- d.
On 11/04/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article1637535.ece
Larry Sanger says on his blog that this was the media going "let's you and him fight" with an out of context quote:
http://blog.citizendium.org/2007/04/11/broken-beyond-repair-a-bit-out-of-con...
- d.
On 11/04/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article1637535.ece
Oh so that's what it was about! I was quite bemused when rushing across Manchester yesterday to see Sanger's Wikipedia article up on the big screen in Exchange Square (on News 24 I presume). Unfortunately I had a train to catch so couldn't stop to watch.
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