On 6/21/05, David Gerard fun@thingy.apana.org.au wrote:
Andrew Lih (andrew.lih@gmail.com) [050621 17:00]:
On 6/21/05, Stirling Newberry stirling.newberry@xigenics.net wrote:
How annoying. I thought it was a marvellous experiment, and was surprised how non-crap the results were. (e.g. beter than Indymedia, though that's not hard).
LA Times' Wikitorials will perhaps go down in history as the [[Disco Demolition Night]] of the Internet.
I don't think it was that bad ;-)
The more the LA Times talks about it, the more I'm convinced they don't "get it". To wit:
"As long as we can hit a high standard and have no risk of vandalism, then it is worth having a try at it again," said Rob Barrett, general manager of Los Angeles Times Interactive.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-wiki21jun21,0,1952611.s...
"No risk of vandalism" eh? :)
-User:Fuzheado