Matt’s post got me remembering coming home from college and seeing some TV Terrorism back in the late 1980s. For just a few seconds, Max Headroom appeared on the TV screen (not the actual TV show), interrupting some regularly scheduled programs. My recollection was that it happened twice, once to PBS (before Doctor Who was [...]
LA Disaster response wiki
This wiki probably has a little more play than the Defra site. I particularly like the idea of a Giant Turtles invading L.A., although the author (the WikiSysop) was really referring to environmental changes leading to some imbalance detrimental to humans.
Defra and the LA Times
On the surface, the Defra wiki experiment in the UK is another demerit for wikis and fodder for those that view the idea of open authorship an inevitable mistake. Like the LA Times experiment in communal reporting before it, Defra was doomed to failure even as it launched. However, a closer look might reveal two [...]