16th June 2008
There are two [Wikipedias]: One is the public-facing reliable-enough-on-average encyclopedia that people read every day, which makes for nice fluff pieces in the media about "these new Web thingamajigs that the kids are building, aren't they neat?". The other is the insular behind-the-scenes bureaucracy, which reads like an improvised performance of the collected writings of Clay Shirky.
Recent articles
- Claude Opus 4.8: "a modest but tangible improvement" - 28th May 2026
- I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit - 27th May 2026
- Notes on Pope Leo XIV's encyclical on AI - 25th May 2026