Andrew Lih wrote:
Got to love video editing... I was talking about Hong Kong entries at the time, but of course it came off like WP was only updated a few times an hour. I cringed too when I saw the way it came off. :)
Hey, I thought it was all *excellent*.
Let me share a personal angle on this. I'm sorry to say that before I watched the video, I had never heard of you nor had I realized that there was a flurry of Hong Kong entries. I've been busy the past few weeks, and it's all I can do to keep up with mailing list controversies.
Now, despite the general p.r. impression that I'm some kind of Internet baron, I'm actually a regular guy who works from an office at home. I live in an ordinary house with my wife and daughter. I sit and type all day, and then I go to the grocery, visit the park, ordinary stuff like that.
Even though I've been on the Internet for years, it still astounds me when I stop and think about it that I can just toss off a note to a professor in Hong Kong!
So, imagine my shock and pleasure to click on a link and see a video on CNN (CNN!) with a bunch of people I never heard of or even imagined, all talking about Wikipedia. Wow.
And what you said was exactly the way I like to see it expressed, i.e. that Wikipedia is a completely insane way to run a website, absolutely destined to disaster -- except that it works.
This Internet thing is pretty cool. I think it might actually catch on.
--Jimbo