Seth Godin RSS feed: Wikipedia gets fictional

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My RSS Feed, Seth Godin, is a Thinker and Has Just Posted the Following:

The biography of George Costanza is five times as long as that of Tim O'Reilly.

As Wikipedia matures, there are hard decisions to be made about depth and breadth. Shouldn't Tim's entry be many pages long? He's one of the great thinkers of our time. If IBM and Jones Soda get entries, why not your brand (or my old summer camp, which was ruthlessly deleted)?

SEO rewards Wikipedia, and well it should. Most searchers who end up there are pretty happy with that result. But as we get further and further into Googleworld, who decides what's worthy?

As the world abandons print reference, are we biasing the entries in favor of Abraham Lincoln (plenty of printed facts available) and TV series characters (we can prove that George worked for Vandalay Industries)?

There's no right answer, of course. But "no answer" isn't an answer either.

If I could only have two tools online, Wikipedia would be one of them. It's great. I hope it gets to where it deserves to go, which is a long way down the road.




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