1. Do you pay the people who help you expand the article?

Posted at 3:02PM on Dec 3rd 2006 by franky

2. I find it hard to believe that this wasn't already on there...And
franky, can you give me a legitimate reason as to why people
*shouldn't* be paid to expand Wikipedia? I'm getting a little
pissed at people who consider the idea of paying people for their
work as a hostile concept.

Posted at 5:18PM on Dec 3rd 2006 by Conrad

3. I get pissed at people who work for free and hope that every person has the same spirit.

I just thought the idea of getting paid for a Wikipedia entry fitted perfectly Calacanis.com last weeks. Even a recent post was about getting paid.
I will repeat myself here: years ago already I paid moderators and community members to write news and workshops in my former computer communities/portals. ;-)

Posted at 8:16PM on Dec 3rd 2006 by franky

4. It would be interesting to try to bring this entry a little further back in time, given the fact that social news projects have been going on for about a decade. I remember visiting Walter Bender at the MIT Media Lab some time around 1997 and playing with some of their "News of the Future" projects. These projects gave the user the ability to personalize their news consumption by rating stories that were of interest to them. The site would then use intelligent agents to identify other news stories that might be of interest. News could also be sorted based on public popularity. They were essentially doing Digg-like ratings experiments years before anyone had started talking about Web 2.0. I wish I could remember the name of the professor who worked for Walter running the project. I think he was a former editor from the Boston Globe.

Posted at 12:05PM on Dec 5th 2006 by andy carvin