On 10/7/2010 6:09 PM, Andrew Gray wrote:
> "Booksellers" is obviously a bigger pool than social networking sites
> or microblogging services or what have you, but I can certainly see
> Paul's point here that it's opening us up to a lot of potential
> hassle, and a lot of fuss from people who have very strong incentives
> to get their service listed.
>
Hell yeah!
Looking up an ISBN code is an absolute nightmare on Wikipedia.
Maybe I'm just a sell-out, but I usually go straight to AMZN, or
maybe, just maybe, WorldCat so I can see if it's the public or Uni
library in my town.
Same thing with the maps... Geodata in wikipedia is often
crazy-wrong because nobody's gotten into the habit of looking at the
points on maps. At Ookaboo
http://ookaboo.com/
I display selected points from a dbpedia/freebase/wikipedia merge,
and there are plenty of crazy errors (for instance, there's a faint
mirror image of continental Europe with the sign of the longitude
reversed off the coast of the British Isles, towns mingling with the
shipwrecks.) If there was more of a focus on doing things one way
correctly instead of not picking favorites, wikipedia users would be
the winners.
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