[Gllug] DIGITAL MAOISM: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism - Jaron Lanier

[Ryland, Peter]

On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 09:41 +0100, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> On Wed, May 31, 2006 9:33 am, Ryland, Peter said:
> > On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 21:42 +0100, M.Blackmore wrote:
> >> (JARON LANIER:) My Wikipedia entry identifies me (at least this week) as
> >> a film director. It is true I made one experimental short film about a
> >> decade and a half ago. The concept was awful: I tried to imagine what
> >> Maya Deren would have done with morphing. It was shown once at a film
> >> festival and was never distributed and I would be most comfortable if no
> >> one ever sees it again. __In the real world it is easy to not direct
> >> films. I have attempted to retire from directing films in the
> >> alternative universe that is the Wikipedia a number of times, but
> >> somebody always overrules me. Every time my Wikipedia entry is
> >> corrected, within a day I'm turned into a film director again. I can
> >> think of no more suitable punishment than making these determined
> >> Wikipedia goblins actually watch my one small old movie.
> >
> > I can find no evidence of this claim.  The wikipedia entry seems never
> > to have included anything about this supposed film-directing career, nor
> > does it show anything in the history to suggest he indeed unsuccessfully
> > attempted to edit the page a number of times.
> >
> Well, I can see he (or someone claiming to be him)certainly attempted to
> remove references to the video

Ok, now I see it.  I would have expected him to have at least put in a
comment to the changes.  Instead he seems to actually be surprised that
people revert his anonymous defacings of his page.  At no point is it
clear that he's defacing the whole page for any reason.  Surely he could
have just removed the two words "film maker" and put in a comment, and
perhaps even done so non-anonymously rather than persisting in defacing
the page.  Actually, it seems he has a history of defacing wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:129.170.202.3

Pete


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