Deborah Elizabeth Finn wrote:
On 3/27/06, Andy Carvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi everyone,
Taran Rampersad recently posted a message to his blog,
www.knowprose.com, about the fact that he's recently been added to
Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taran_Rampersad
Dear Andy,
Very cool! And I love that photo of Taran.
How does one get to be immortalized with a Wikipedia entry? There was
one of me for a day or two, but then it was fastracked for deletion.
:-( Otherwise, I would have wanted to be in the "digital divide
activists" category.
Warm regards from Deborah
Well, as Andy and I were discussing on our talk pages, it can be a
strange honor. I got mentioned mainly because of the BBC article related
to the SMS disaster system I was involved with after the tsunami... I
was apparently fast tracked for deletion, but whoever started the
article substantiated it with the BBC article. I found it by googling
myself, trying to find something I wrote some years ago (and that's
become increasingly difficult).
I really do feel strange about the whole thing. It comes with caveats.
To be a respectable page, Andy and I both agree that we shouldn't really
edit our own pages... mainly because it's in poor taste, I think. It's
weird having other people describe you in the third person as if you
weren't in the 'room'.
I keep wanting to scream, "but I'm not dead yet!"... :-)
Still, I suggest things on entries. I'm still trying to figure out what
the salary requirements for a technology activist are... but I have
figured out that there is little room for advancement. :-)
--
Taran Rampersad
Presently in: San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Looking for contracts/work!
http://www.knowprose.com/node/9786
New!: http://www.OpenDepth.com
http://www.knowprose.com
http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Taran
Pictures: http://www.flickr.com/photos/knowprose/
"Criticize by creating." — Michelangelo
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