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- Renuvian, on 04/03/2008, -0/+46Because its not very notable?
- mediaspree, on 04/03/2008, -0/+42That'll be a rather short article.
- WiseWeasel, on 04/03/2008, -0/+33What could possibly be the use of this besides centralized marketing data? I try to limit my public personal info, not facilitate it... The last thing I need is to link even more public online information with my real life identity. Anyone gullible enough to accurately fill one of these out on themselves should really get a lesson in online identity protection.
- inactive, on 04/03/2008, -1/+33Finally, recognition!
- decadence, on 04/03/2008, -0/+23"You can help Biographicon by enlarging this article"
- Darkhacker, on 04/03/2008, -1/+18I don't think it's attended for listing information that's too personal. I was thinking more along the lines of sharing life experiences and life lessons. Maybe writing about your first date, job, and things of that sort. More like a centralized place to put all those little funny stories you occasionally bring up to friends and relatives. For example, I was Time Magazine's 2006 person of the year.
Of course the reality is that it will be filled with emo kids talking about the pain they feel and how they'll commit suicide. Or they'll be a bunch of 16 year old girls documenting how they fell in love with that cute boy (back off bitch, he's mine!). It will basically turn into a third-person blog.
"In April 2008, Darkhacker's life changed forever has he made a remarkable comment on the popular social news site Digg.com; thus propelling himself to internet fame." - TRScheel, on 04/03/2008, -0/+12OUCH! Burn!
- theaceoffire, on 04/03/2008, -0/+11Now we need one for people who don't think they need one.
- wukillabee, on 04/03/2008, -7/+18ill create a page for my penis
- dOOBiEx213, on 04/03/2008, -2/+12Avoid these sites like the plague...unless you don't mind the FBI, NSA, CIA, etc. collecting your information. Myspace/Facebook is bad enough.
- Neo829, on 04/03/2008, -1/+9A helpful hint when attempting to employ cutting sarcasm: Typically, the "/tag" syntax is used to terminate a block of text of the given type, derived from the HTML/XML syntax of a similar nature. This is why often a sarcastic comment, such as yours, might employ a /sarcasm pseudo-tag to make sure the intent was clear.
In your comment you inadvertently (yet serendipitously!) tagged your text as being typed by an idiot. - HarleyQuinn, on 04/03/2008, -0/+7So with all you info online, how long before we do a 180 with "Web 3.0 - The Private & Anti-Social"? Headline: Kevin Rose launches new UnDigg service to help purge you personal data from online. Hopefully, this will give way to Web 4.0 - "Go outside and talk to people again". Think how Retro that would be.
- kevir, on 04/03/2008, -0/+7This article is a stub.
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……….*,………`-,…)-,…………..,-*`...,-*….(`-,… - HumbleDialog, on 04/03/2008, -0/+6Hey, I thought I was Time magazine's 2006 person of the year.
- dOOBiEx213, on 04/03/2008, -2/+8You make a good point. We should allow every agency to monitor our internet activity, phone calls, emails...***** IT! Let's just get RFID implants, and set up some cameras in our homes, and every street corner...it's not like we have anything to hide right? Go slash your wrists moron.
/idiot - ascheinberg, on 04/03/2008, -0/+4I don't understand why wikipedia disqualifies ANYTHING as not notable enough. Are they short on disk space or something? Why would it matter? It's not like they're selling a paper version or being charged by the letter for storage.
- Archcoder, on 04/03/2008, -1/+5While I'm not arrogant enough to make a page about myself, I still don't like the nazi-esque editors. Almost everything I have ever changed or added was either reverted or removed. I've fixed up entire articles just to have them reverted for not citing the perfect amount of sources.
And for the record, the MythBusters are too a scientific organization. - surKaz, on 04/03/2008, -0/+4Hmm.. Right now, there's alot of small entrepreneurs, business owners, authors of blogs etc... on there..
But I don't really feel the need to put my Bio up there right now... Cuz wikipedias 'Notable' comment makes sense, I'd like to have a Bio online when I'm somewhat notable.. - dn11, on 04/03/2008, -0/+3some people also like to channel that kind of information (pokemon characters, TV episode guides etc) to their for profit services... let's face it - Wikipedia hasn't fully lived up to what a lot of people envisioned it could be. Academic credibility in the traditional model was never Wikipedia's strength (except as far as academic topics could be linked and referenced to real academic sources) - it was accessibility, by anyone, with any kind of information. The Wikipedia "thugs" end up dictating what is "important" - that is BS. Having said that, I don't really see a need for a directory of random people biographies - that is what social networks are for.
- alilhappything, on 04/03/2008, -0/+3I was thinking of this last night. Then you could set up a family tree or a friend tree.
- VinceNoir, on 04/03/2008, -0/+3Being a time traveler and all, I went back and reworked things so that Darkhacker gets + Diggs and surKaz gets - Diggs. BTW... I started the Rick Roll, so I can bask in the glory of knowing that it was MY idea. Even more so when I think of all the people it's angered and annoyed.
- jmpeagle, on 04/03/2008, -0/+3well most people don't actually care that much about privacy. Just look at social networking sites.
- smek2, on 04/03/2008, -0/+3Thank god for the "notability" requirement.
- theodenking, on 04/03/2008, -0/+3Noun
humour (plural humours)
1. Something funny such as a joke, satire, parody, etc. - talonstriker, on 04/03/2008, -1/+4You think you need "questionable activities" to land on the terrorist watch list? Just say something that is against the government, then get airplane tickets. Odds are that they won't let you get on the plane.
- ikrit2006, on 04/03/2008, -0/+2I, for one, welcome our... oh wait, wrong Futurama quote.
- stix213, on 04/03/2008, -0/+2hmmm..... I wrote this question in the hope of actually getting an answer. Not sure what digging my question down means.
- riskybeats, on 04/03/2008, -0/+2I couldn't care less about you guys. Sorry.
- dootisterhans, on 04/03/2008, -1/+3oh yeah, great idea...a website where you can create a small biography about yourself and link it to the bio of your friends. like that would ever work.
- rivalius13, on 04/03/2008, -5/+7Finally, people will recognise that it was I who invented the internet and not that charolttan Al Gore!
- rpedro, on 04/03/2008, -0/+2Are yoiu a troll? or an idiot??
oh, forgot, "no such thing" on Digg.com.. - Kauzman01, on 04/03/2008, -0/+2I will note that after some experimentation with this site, that information can be easily removed and wiped from the site and archives if you make an effort to contact them about it.
- thekohser, on 04/04/2008, -0/+2MyWikiBiz.com is mentioned in the article. It actually aspires to be a "Human Archive" as mentioned by RickyBarnes1960. The difference with it is that the subject of the biography has control over protecting the directory listing (or article) about themselves. 100% of page-resident ad revenue (optional to the editor) goes to the editor, not to the site. So, it's not a corporate greed-fest like MySpace, and it's not a libel factory like Wikipedia or Biographicon.
- inactive, on 04/04/2008, -0/+2I've thought for a long while that no human being - none - deserves obscurity and have toyed with ideas for a human archive, one that preserves as much information on anyone and everyone as is practicable. None of this concept has to do with the notion of preserving information for marketing purposes or government control but only with the idea that a single human life is absolutely of value and worth remembering. I think these services, particularly the free ones, are a great step forward in the direction of not simply preserving what value can be salvaged from every life but also to do something only computers can do easily and efficiently - realize and display the many important connections between those individual lives. Imagine reading about your favorite author or musician or perhaps even just your great-grandmother and being able to instantly see many of those people who influenced them and who they themselves influenced. It could be an immensely valuable educational tool. There is probably no avoiding the likely negative uses of the information but, I believe the value and utility of such a tool far outweighs its negative uses. The guiding principle ought to forever be this - No life deserves to be forgotten, ever. Future generations deserve to know where they came from and how human culture arrived at the time and place it did. Such insight mustn't be lost. A "Human Archive" could quite possibly be the most valuable tool mankind is ever to create for its own sake.
- colto, on 04/03/2008, -0/+2Possibly, but it's cliche right now!
- SSUK, on 04/03/2008, -0/+2Magic, I suppose.
- HonestAbe, on 04/03/2008, -0/+2Because some people think that inclusion of certain types of content (Pokemon characters, high schools, etc.) somehow tarnishes the academic credibility of the project (as if it ever had any).
There are effectively no size limits, and there were originally not supposed to be notability criteria, either:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_is_not_paper - B3000, on 04/03/2008, -1/+3Because someday the rules might change and things which were once considered normal will get classified as being questionable. Prior to the holocaust Jews in Germany weren't worried about people finding out they were Jews. Why would they be? Prior to Joseph McCarthy people in this country thought that they had a right to express whatever political views they had. It's a free country, right? The definition of questionable changes and so you'd better watch your back.
- dn11, on 04/03/2008, -0/+1Don't worry, lots of start ups suck big time. Just because someone actually went out and made it doesn't mean they should have.
- goofnoof, on 04/03/2008, -0/+1Biographicon is pretty cool because the vision is so vast - it has the potential to chart the connections between every person who has ever been. Like in a couple years, you could see that 3 connections from you is someone who knew Einstien.
- Mirthoneist, on 04/03/2008, -0/+1This will be great for stalking potential girlfriends' personalities. :)
- dn11, on 04/03/2008, -0/+1great, the Myspace of internet encyclopedias...
- elementop, on 04/03/2008, -1/+2As if having your own myspace page wasn't egocentric enough, now you can have your whole biography hosted on-line. Sigh...
- BMNB1tches, on 04/03/2008, -1/+2http://www.biographicon.com/view/7jj0x/Rick_Astley
- purezero, on 04/03/2008, -0/+1Just use Facebook: http://xkcd.com/300/
- tech42er, on 04/06/2008, -0/+1Then ket me tell you what it means: no one agrees with you. Wikipedia constantly deletes articles because their subjects are not notable enough.
- inactive, on 04/03/2008, -1/+2that few minutes of fame has now come down to a few seconds.. aww commoditys...
- secretowls, on 04/03/2008, -0/+1Crap, I had this idea a while ago.
- dOOBiEx213, on 04/03/2008, -1/+2You missed the point that the only person who would make that comment in a non-sarcastic tone IS an idiot. Perhaps the final command made to wbeavis to "slash his wrists" was what threw you off, since it actually offered excellent advice unexpected from an idiot.
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