This and that …
- Congresscritters vs. Wikipedia.
Vogel said, “It makes sense to me the biography we submit would be the biography we write.” The change doubled the length of the entry on Meehan, corrected errors and replaced “sloppy” writing, Vogel said. “Let the outside world edit it. It seemed right to start with greater depth than a paragraph with incorrect data from the ’80s.”
- AOL Acting Like God?
America Online is now acting like God – using what some consider to be His very name in a marketing pitch for e-mail, voice chat, video chat, instant messaging, text messaging and other forms of communication. AIM’s new slogan is “I AM.” (via J-Walk)
- “Cool” remains cool.
“It just keeps swaggering along,” he said. “I think this has gone beyond slang and into a word that is so useful and versatile that it is just one of the words we use. There are no other words in the vocabulary that quite do the job. Cool is already firmly ensconced in several generations. It’s got street cred. And it had street cred before we even used the phrase street cred.” (via J-Walk)
If Ian Millar et al are so easily offended by something as ubiquitous in the English language as the subject-verb combination of “I AM,” what would he make of the long-running campaign for Molson Canadian?
http://www.coolcanuckaward.ca/i_am_canadian.htm
Well, heck, it’s Canadian — that makes it half-Satanic already, right?
WaPo article on the Congress-Wikipedia Connection.
The BBC picks up the Congress-Wikipedia thing.