Ephemera
ByCraig Newmark intends to shake up journalism. Few people in the UK have even heard of Craigslist but over here you’d have to be living in a closet (that’s a wardrobe to you folks from Leeds) not to know and/or have used Craigslist. Take a look here. I dare you not to be impressed. Now imagine what he could do for news…
I’ve been meaning to blog about this Esquire magazine article written by Wikipedians for a while. Contrary to popular belief Wikipedians are not people from another planet (Wiki) but users of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia (yawn). Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia written by the people who use it. I would challenge anyone not to be impressed by an encyclopedia that includes entries on Leeds Rhinos, Viz and Smiley Faces 
For the Esquire article, journalist A.J. Jacobs posted an error-ridden draft of a story on Wikipedia and got the community to edit it themselves. You can see the story here. It should appear shortly in the magazine.
Finally, I am pleased to report that contrary to popular belief, I am in fact a Democrat!
| You are a Social Liberal (66% permissive) and an… Economic Liberal (33% permissive) You are best described as a:
Link: The Politics Test on Ok Cupid |
10 Comments
November 24th, 2005 at 11:58 am
Cripes Paul, I’m a Socialist!
Social Liberal
(70% permissive)
Economic Liberal
(16% permissive)
That is uncanny.
November 24th, 2005 at 6:13 pm
You are a Social Liberal(76% permissive) and an economic Liberal(18% permissive)
You are best described as a Socialist
November 25th, 2005 at 10:44 am
Socialists together!
Excellent.
Where’s Nick?
November 25th, 2005 at 12:23 pm
Nick is waging war on the Capitalist swine in Cleveland Ohio sipping Brandy and resting his feet on the huddled masses.
November 27th, 2005 at 12:21 am
[...] I took the OK Cupid Politics test (as did EiNY in this post). I wanted to see if I was more or less left-wing than he is. It seems that I am much more left wing than I imagined. I suspect it has to do with the fact that Americans call anyone with even a vague social conscience a socialist. I bet if a similar test was put together in England I’d find myself rated closer to the center. [...]
November 27th, 2005 at 4:22 pm
Such bourgois conceit!
You think you know someone but behind your back they’re living the high-life off the back of their ill gotten gains! He was bever like that when we were working at the peace centre! I’m going to have a cup of “fair trade” tea and a slice of fruit cake from a “help the aged” jumble sale and think about how things could have been…
November 27th, 2005 at 5:04 pm
Josh, you don’t know the half of it.
Since he moved to New York a few months ago Nick has taken to wearing tweed suits, public school ties and road testing a number of types of facial hair, each more bourgois-looking than the one before. It won’t be long before he is sporting a monocle and waders.
He has also expressed a strong desire to join a local gentleman’s “club” where he expects to dine in comfort away from the New York riff raff. No doubt, a place where he will continue to propound his Capitalist “views” on geopolitics and economics, such as the ones he was sporting last week when, as I left his apartment, I heard him say, “yeah, but what has American Apparel ever done to help Asian sweatshop workers?”
What have they done, indeed?
November 27th, 2005 at 5:51 pm
First thing tomorrow I shall be posting him a donkey jacket, a cloth cap and a flask of char.
This must be stopped.
Without Nick on my side the gap between the rich and the poor will grow to the point that there won’t even be any Middle classes! Then where will we be? What will happen to my mahoggany (from renewable woodland) salad bowl or my hand woven rag rug from a self sufficient mountain community in Peru?
Such saddness…
November 28th, 2005 at 10:29 am
You are best described as a Fascist!
Social Liberal
(0% permissive)
Economic Liberal
(100% permissive)
Fascism is the most sexy of all the ideologies. My beard has transformed in to a waxed moustache!
November 28th, 2005 at 11:10 am
Darn!
I’m heading to the hills to start digging a network of defensive tunnels. When the revolution comes you’ll never catch me! At least not alive anyhow.
Ps, I don’t suppose you got that package in time…