search me

Search is one of the most powerful editorial functions in our society today, and we should really demand that it be done in an open and transparent way.

So the project is really a bit of a political statement by me about what we should all be looking for in an open society and an open Internet.

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales commenting on today’s beta release of the new collaborative search engine Wiki.com in DM News.

Wales assures us all that Wiki.com is based on principles of “transparency, community, quality and privacy”.

gettin' wiki- with it

Among the closest and dirtiest contests this year in the U.S. Senate race in New Jersey, between the Democratic incumbent, Bob Menendez, and Tom Kean, Jr., the son of the former governor. In the midst of much ugliness, supporters of each candidate have been waging a Wikipedia war. The candidates’ entries have been in constant flux.
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If a curious voter had looked up Menendez last Wednesday, he would have come across the observation “He funny looking.” Last Friday morning, there was nothing on the Menendez page at all but, for a few minutes, the word “fetus”. As for Kean, users have had to undo Bart Simponesque reports that the challenger “resides in Flat Butt, Nebraska, with his husband, Joe.”

From « Dirty Wikitricks» by Nick Paumgarten in the 6 November issue of the New Yorker.

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