Jim Prentice’s Wikipedia entry

June 5, 2008 D. H. McKee

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Someone tracked the IP of the edits on a Wikipedia article back to Industry Canada. Losers. These are the guys who are in charge of Internet legistlation, and they can’t even anonymously edit Wikipedia properly.
Government buffing Prentice’s Wikipedia entry

The government has been editing Minister of Industry Jim Prentice’s Wikipedia entry, removing mentions of the recent copyright-reform controversy and hailing the minister as personifying “experience, confidence and competence, ability and capability.”
The edits, discovered by University of Ottawa internet law professor Michael Geist â.. a vocal opponent of Prentice’s pending copyright legislation â.. have been anonymously made over the past week with several attempts to remove criticisms of a bill the minister is expected to table before Parliament breaks for its summer session some time over the next few weeks.
The Wikipedia website allows anyone to edit an entry, which allows for incorrect information â.. or opinionated views â.. to be added. The site’s open architecture provides a way for incorrect information and opinions to slowly be filtered out as additional users add to or remove from entries.

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As a guy who occasionally curates art shows and wrangles artists together, I often have to edit and post artist bios, profile pictures, and artwork images. This can be a problem, since many artists and writers aren’t used to selling themselves. Artists rarely know how to present their art for display in a brochure, and writers aren’t used to writing about themselves.

Writers often treat the bio like it’s an interview or something. Maybe like they’re having a conversation with you, the reader. While it may work sometimes, the most common way to write a bio is to write in the 3rd person.

I’m like those writers, and I’m talking to you directly, unlike the common way to do a bio. You should see my About page. It makes sense to me, since this is a bit which describes my blog’s website. When I get famous enough that I don’t have time to talk to you, I’ll have an intern write everything in 3rd person. Until then, you get to talk to me.

Like blogs of old, this one is a personal document of the comings and goings of me. Articles I’ve written, links I’ve posted, videos I liked, etc. Here, a first-person perspective is the way to go, at least for now. So, this is my site. I’m D. H. McKee, a sometimes artist, sometimes writer. Mostly just a guy on the internet.