of Blogs and Wikis

Posted on April 2nd, 2004 by longestnow.
Categories: indescribable.

Well, blogging about the R-meeting last night, casually, while watching conversation roll off of tongues and patter through #channels, made me think about the speed with which interactive xsation takes place in different media, its staying power there, and its capacity for catalysing ideas, rather than retarding them into a vague medium of shared language.

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Feeling Lucky, Jew? Bumping a spite-site from the G-spot

Posted on April 1st, 2004 by longestnow.
Categories: popular demand.

So, here’s the situation.


Noticing that the G-spot for “Jew” is an anti-semitic site,
Informed by the G-Man that they’re not arbiters of propriety,
Someone decides to make a more suitable site the top hit.


Asking his friends to rally round,
Choosing the Wikipedia article [[Jew]] for its fine qualities,
(”…most inclusive, non-denominational, and democratic source…”)
He initiates a G-juicing campaign.     


In a week, the article’s ranking rises to the first page of results, but
not yet to the hotseat.  I love the idea and I love Wikipedia –
why is this the first positive googlebomb I’ve heard of?   — S.

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Hot smoking guns, Frodo!

Posted on April 1st, 2004 by longestnow.
Categories: %a la mod.

I get to blog tonight’s non-webcast blogger meeting… how exciting.  (sorry that J won’t be there, though!) and there’s a big oddball party at my place tomorrow… and an amazing story about WP, the Jerusalem Post, and antisemitic sites with high page rank.  Next, on Sjeraldo…

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