Couldn’t Help But Notice (012907)
This was inevitable, and will probably happen more:
Microsoft Pays Blogger To ‘Correct’ Wikipedia Entry
Topologi’s Rick Jelliffe will offer Redmond’s spin on public articles pertaining to the ODF/OOXML standard.
By Paul McDougall
InformationWeekJan 23, 2007 02:00 PM
A blogger on a popular technology Web site says Microsoft has offered to pay him to post information on the online encyclopedia Wikipedia.com to “correct” what Microsoft claims is erroneous information about a key software standard.
I don’t see the problem, as long as the relationship is prominently and continually disclosed. That, of course, is a very big “as long as.”
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If the AP can’t even use the right name of a source for 62 stories, why would anyone expect them to be able to distinguish between a “lawmaker” and a terrorist? Of course, they either can’t, or won’t.
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I’m late to this chorus of reaction to this (HT to Boring Made Dull and many others) but feel I should join it:
Troops Authorized to Kill Iranian Operatives in Iraq
Administration Strategy Stirs Concern Among Some Officials
It’s about time, but they shouldn’t have even had to ask.
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A Powerline forum commenter puts the weekend protest and the March for Life into perspective:
3. Tiny crowd. I was surprised by just how small the crowd was. I rode my bike from the Virginia side, up the Mall past the Washington Monument, and it wasn’t until I started to approach the march’s grandstand on the Capitol side of the Mall that I began to see anyone that might be considered a war protester. Having been on the Mall many times before during July 4th celebrations, the “Million Man March”, and the recent March for Life, I can attest that this was a small crowd.
The related Powerline post has comparative pics of the March for Life and weekend war protest crowds. They appear roughly equal, so I think the forum poster, who is for all practical purposes saying that the March for Life crowd was bigger, breaks the tie. “Of course,” because they don’t like their agenda, the March for Life was mostly ignored by the formerly Mainstream Media, and the march’s crowd, which likely hit six figures (two observers claimed that “hundreds of thousands” attended), pegged as “tens of thousands,” was almost definitely underestimated. Tim Graham at NewsBusters has more on the contrasting treatment given the two marches by the Washington Post.
