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

[Adrian McMenamin]

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

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