Wikipedia is a fantastic site for deathwatchers; updating almost instantly upon news of the recent deaths of Johnnie Cochran, Terri Schiavo, and the dearly lamented Karol Wojtyla. Johnnie Cochran’s death was chronicled within 30 minutes, over 15 minutes before wire services had the news. This surprised a CBS reporter enough to call to discover Wikipedia’s source. The answer? “Some IP in California.”
Archive for April, 2005
Wikipedia deathwatch, NYT one-upsmanship
Wednesday, April 6th, 2005Local Boston Wikinews
Tuesday, April 5th, 2005In the past few days: a Big Dig source pretends new report is positive; and a Harvard divestment from PetroChina.
Wikipedia DVD hits top-2 on Amazon best-sellers list
Friday, April 1st, 2005Germany’s Directmedia today released the Wikipedia Frühjahr 2005 DVD from Wikimedia Deutschland, which immediately jumped to the day’s Amazon bestseller list, and proceeded to rise to the top spot on the list for a few days, and then settled in at 2d place for the following fortnight. This came on top of a sizeable batch of over 7,000 preorders.
Schoenhof’s was no help in getting copies here (6-8 weeks and over $20 each), but I’ll see how long it takes Directmedia to send me a box. Let me know if you want one.