Curry busted, admits to Wiki podcast history editing |
Loading ...Oooo, two drama posts in a row.
Adam Curry in the news again, this time for editing the history of podcasting at the Wikipedia. After Kevin Marks broke it citing an IP address tracing back to Curry, he admitted it, notes Rogers Cadenhead:
Former MTV veejay and podcasting entrepreneur Adam Curry appears to have been caught anonymously editing the podcasting entry on Wikipedia to remove credit from other people and inflate his role in its creation.
Just so all the disclosures are out there, Cadenhead was hired to do work for Dave Winer on weblogs.com before the sale to Versign and Dave Winer has his own history of struggles with Curry over accreditation in the podcasting space.
Predictably, Winer has a take — and it’s actually a pretty good one — on the whole Wikipedia house of cards:
…the bigger problem is that Wikipedia is so often considered authoritative. That must stop now, surely. Every fact in there must be considered partisan, written by someone with a confict of interest. Further, we need to determine what authority means in the age of Internet scholarship. And we need to take a step back and ask if we really want the participants in history to write and rewrite the history.
BTW, one of the most read and commented threads at this blog to date — Winer linked to it multiple times, in fact — was my own historical take on podcasting: Podcasting Star Wars: Winer vs. Curry. Bummer, that this sizzling drama didn’t make the Wiki cut, but fellow Star Wars geeks might get aroused.
[sniff]
Wiki edit wars are so … 2004. I feel dirty.
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[…] Lots of people have commented on the story. Cadenhead posted some more thoughts, Richard Giles writes that Curry is full of shit, as I read it, Audiobloogging 2.0 throws in the hat, over on Make You Go Hmm we get the Curry vs. Winer aspect of the story (head to Curry’s own site for more of the cat fight), Ewen Spence chimes in, as does The Blog Herald and Shelley Powers, who thinks an edit war is probably a good thing. I happen to agree. Mike Fylnn thinks it was inevitable and wonders why anyone gives a crap. Dave Winer wonders where all the historians have gone and a whole host of others that I’m leaving out. […]
Pingback by An Idiot’s Guide to Web 2.0 » Blog Archive » Curryian Favor — December 4, 2005 @ 9:15 am PST
[…] Update 12/4/05: Kevin Marks discovers that an IP address pointing to Adam Curry tried to edit the Wikipedia history, which Adam would later admit to doing himself. Dave decides to post reminding Adam that he didn’t get anything from their alleged 50/50 deal and the flames rise again: … when it became clear that not only was Adam going to (try to) take all the credit, but he was going to take all the money too. Fact is, it’s almost a year later, and he’s never settled the account. I put a lot of creativity, time and money into building his business, and his (and Kleiner’s) position seems to be Thanks for nothing. […]
Pingback by Make You Go Hmm: » Podcasting Star Wars: Winer vs. Curry — December 4, 2005 @ 11:19 am PST
[…] Wikipedia has gotten a lot of (mostly negative) press this last week due to Adam Curry anonymously making edits to the history of podcasting and an op-ed piece in USA Today pointing out that a bogus Wikipedia article suggested that a former assistant of Robert Kennedy may have been involved in two assasinations. […]
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