Stacy Schiff of The New Yorker wrote an article about Wikipedia that was first published online in July of 2006 . One of Schiff's sources was a pseudonymous...
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Dr Zen
dfpjd
Mar 1, 2007 3:48 pm
Once exposed, Essjay simply piled lie on lie. He invented the PhD to big himself up, not because of stalkers. His claims to receive ten death threats a week...
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Internet Esquire
dfpjd
Mar 1, 2007 4:58 pm
In my original blog post, I stated that Daniel Brandt had broken the story about Essjay quite some time ago and pointed to a URL on Brandt's Wikipedia Watch...
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Internet Esquire
dfpjd
Mar 1, 2007 10:45 pm
In following up on my previous XODP Blog post about the fraud perpetrated by the Wikipedian known pseudonymously as "Essjay," I came upon a post at Kelly...
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lawrence
dfpjd
Mar 1, 2007 11:17 pm
I don't think Essjay should really be the focus. Jimmy Wales should be in the spotlight. The fact is, after Essjay's compulsive lying, Jimmy Wales promoted him...
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Dr Zen
dfpjd
Mar 2, 2007 5:26 am
I am loving "I didn't know the New Yorker would print it". This implies they didn't even ask him about his professorship. Yet he claims that he had a long chat...
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Avrum
dfpjd
Mar 2, 2007 8:04 am
1. The press itself lies so often that lying to them isn't such an awful sin. 2. Suppose that the guy is indeed a professor of theology. Would you trust him...
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Internet Esquire
dfpjd
Mar 3, 2007 9:47 pm
The recent intrigue over Wikipedian Essjay's phony credentials has inspired Larry Sanger to reconsider Citizendium's registration policy : ". . . . We are very...
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Internet Esquire
dfpjd
Mar 4, 2007 8:18 am
The beleagured Essjay "retired" from Wikipedia today, and I was prepared to let sleeping dogs lie until I read a post at Andrew Lih's blog : "Paying a source...
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Internet Esquire
dfpjd
Mar 5, 2007 11:54 pm
Viewer-supported Link TV , recently broadcast a program entitled 9/11 Press For Truth as part one of a two part special entitled Truth, Lies, and the Press ....
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Anonymous
dfpjd
Mar 6, 2007 1:44 am
The Terror Timeline has had some influence.Tom Fenton used it for one of his chapters on the failings of contemporary journalism(overstretched);the book is...
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Internet Esquire
dfpjd
Mar 7, 2007 7:24 pm
I have done my level best to avoid posting yet another entry on the XODP Blog about the Wikipedian impostor known as Essjay, limiting myself to commentary on...
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llywrch
dfpjd
Mar 7, 2007 7:24 pm
You wrote: "These positions gave me an enormous appreciation for just how difficult it is for most people to produce quality writing, just how defensive most...
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Anonymous
dfpjd
Mar 8, 2007 12:36 am
Yes, let's put Essjay's fraud into perspective: He's a young man who did a foolish thing. His decision to "come out" was obviously made with consulting Jimbo....
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Internet Esquire
dfpjd
Mar 8, 2007 12:55 am
As I've stated elsewhere, I think that what Jimbo knew about Essjay and when he knew it are irrelevant, as Jimbo apologized, asked for Essjay's resignation,...
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Pawlina
dfpjd
Mar 8, 2007 10:06 pm
You make a good point in contrasting the perceived personal risk of citing the New Yorker vs Wikipedia. However, it appears Wikipedia is trying to establish a...
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Internet Esquire
dfpjd
Mar 9, 2007 5:30 pm
The Digg website was launched just over two years ago on December 5th, 2004, and now boasts having some one million users. For those of you who have never...
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Internet Esquire
dfpjd
Mar 10, 2007 4:54 pm
According to Brian Bergstein of the Associated Press: "Following revelations that a high-ranking member of Wikipedia's bureaucracy used his cloak of...
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Internet Esquire
dfpjd
Mar 10, 2007 11:36 pm
When the Web was young -- i.e., before the advent of Yahoo! and Google -- USENET [sic] was the primary medium for fielding informational queries on the...
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Internet Esquire
dfpjd
Mar 11, 2007 7:29 am
I don't necessarily put fault with the fact checker. I think that it is natural to expect a web site to maintain the accuracy of the data that is presented in...
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Anonymous
dfpjd
Mar 14, 2007 9:14 pm
From 10 things you did not know about Wikipedia : 6. We don't want you to trust us. Good Wikipedia articles are accompanied by liberal references and...
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Internet Esquire
dfpjd
Mar 19, 2007 8:04 am
The term "Web 2.0" was coined sometime in 2004 by Dale Dougherty of O'Reilly Media. Far from a new technical standard, Web 2.0 began as a marketing gimmick for...
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Gregory Kohs
dfpjd
Mar 19, 2007 5:14 pm
This scandal seems to be having an adverse effect on the daily financial donations to the Wikimedia Foundation: http://www.centiare.com/Wikipedia_scandals...
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Charleskou
dfpjd
Apr 12, 2007 10:03 pm
"The Terror Timeline" makes a strong case for Pakistani(ISI) involvement in 9/11. The Saudis clearly had foreknowledge of the attacks if not a supporting role....
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rob_chi80
Apr 25, 2007 3:59 pm
Hi, I recently joined this group, because I thought it would be a good forum to solicit some feedback regarding a project I founded. As former ODP editors, I'm...
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Anonymous
dfpjd
Jun 15, 2007 9:33 pm
Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "A Post Mortem on Zeal": This is over a year later and the ODP has reached a new low in irrational and cruel...
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Anonymous
dfpjd
Jul 9, 2007 3:18 am
Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "ODP/dMOZ - In Memoriam, Once Again": June 2007. Dmoz has been offline for 48 hours. It's about time the dinosaur...
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Vasiliy Kiryanov
dfpjd
Oct 1, 2007 4:09 am
Vasiliy Kiryanov has left a new comment on your post "The Waning Relevance of Search Engines": I like your article. The most I like point about search function...
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Internet Esquire
dfpjd
Nov 29, 2007 6:51 pm
While Googling my byline a month or so ago to keep current on any recent gossip about me, I stumbled upon a thread at Digital Point discussing the merits (or...
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Internet Esquire
dfpjd
Mar 26, 2008 8:08 pm
For reasons that defy rational explanation, the powers that be at Wikia dispute the claim that Wikia is the for-profit counterpart of the non-profit Wikimedia...
