Meeja hoor. NewsTalk Dublin, 6:20pm today.

[reddragdiva]

I'm on NewsTalk Dublin at 6:20pm today, on George Hook again, about the WikiScanner thing. Pat Rabbitte has resigned as Labour leader, so it may get bumped (again).

In other news, have a photo of and interview with me, from the Honda public relations magazine Dream. I came into work to be greeted with an A3 colour photocopy on my desk.

Update: Quick 4 min segment. He mentioned his own entry, which presently speaks of him as a dog-lover — he can't stand dogs! I said "click on the history tab, you'll see everyone that ever changed it listed there - the WikiScanner basically indexes all that stuff, so you can look it up." He liked that. I also mentioned there'd be a lot of employees whose bosses might be a little annoyed at what they'd been doing at work ...

Update 2: 11:30pm call from the Daily Mail. Apparently the Sun is running a piece on vandalism of Gordon Brown from Whitehall IP addresses. She asked a cheeringly clueful question: how long was it up there? I couldn't find the edits, but did introduce her to the history tab, which she was most excited by. Hear that? That's a journalistic instinct sniffing out a new source of information.

I also got to note something that's surprised me: the public's opinion of what constitutes a conflict of interest is far harsher than even Wikipedia's.

Comments

[notintheseheels.livejournal.com]

Nice photo, possibly the first time I've actually seen you in trousers ;)

[arkady.livejournal.com]

He wore trousers for his wedding (http://www.arkady.org.uk/Wedding). And for this pic (http://arkady.fotopic.net/p2816273.html).

[reddragdiva]

You'll ruin my reputation!

[arkady.livejournal.com]

:-*

[pfctdayelise.livejournal.com]

cool little interview thing. although did you really say "Wiki" (as in "Wiki is my hobby")?

what do you mean by "the public's opinion of what constitutes a conflict of interest is far harsher than even Wikipedia's"? I mean some specific thing that people have been up in arms about?

[reddragdiva]

Of course I didn't say that. The text is like a Mark V Shaney remix of my actual words.

Just the general reaction to the WikiScanner. Around the bogosphere I've been seeing people hitting the roof at the Fox News edits, for instance.

[reddragdiva]

This also amused me. And Downer's idiot counterattack.

[pfctdayelise.livejournal.com]

it's pretty hilarious seeing it play out locally.

[reddragdiva]

The original transcript isn't much better. Downer can look somewhat competent if he's given time to be briefed beforehand, but catch him unprepared and it's like a rabbit in headlights. The things that batter indeed.

[pfctdayelise.livejournal.com]

I thought his comments were more or less fair enough, and not really deserving of the headline "Downer accuses Wikipedia of anti-government bias".

It must be such a shock to come out of his cocoon and realise that actually not everyone will accept spin.