Hey, it’s repeatPenguin! I’ll give you a brief introduction, so you will know if you’re up to the challenge, meh (or rather, if you’re willing to let me distract you for a few minutes with my rambling).
I am a designer and web developer in San Francisco.
“Oh no, another web developer BLOG,” you say?
Fortunately, YES! There just aren’t enough of them, so I’m doing my part to bring you the goods. um…
The point of all this is to share my experience. So what’s on the plate?
Open Wiki Documentary Project
Truth in Numbers: The Wikipedia Story
In late January Michael Gibson, director of 24 Hours on Craigslist, approached my design firm Object Adjective to get involved in the making of his new documentary, Truth in Numbers: The Wikipedia Story (due out in spring 2008).
The objective is to create an open wiki that will allow the public to shape the development of the documentary film, in the making. We are enthusiastic to take on the project, considering our passion for wikis, free exchange of information and the open source movement. Not to mention, Michael is a prodigious geek and we are huge fans.
We are currently transferring the wiki to it’s new home. It will go public in the next few days. Please visit our project page for updates. We will make an announcement when the new wiki is up and we look forward to your contributions.
About the film: Truth in Number: The Wikipedia Story is a global film exploring how the concepts of open source and collaboratively-created information systems (particularly Wikipedia) are fundamentally changing media, academics, politics, culture and, well, basically everything.
Please Participate in the effort: Use the link below to donate to the production. You will be redirected to a secure page on the supporting Non-profit organization, The Free History Project’s website. When making a donation, please type “wikidoc” in the ‘Payment For’ box.
If I had something more, something clever to say here, I certainly would. Let me think…
The intent of this text, on the other hand, is to provide a sense of what actual text would look like here. It’s pretty futile, indeed.
If I were to have an image I wanted to post, it might look something like the photo to the left (if you could be so lucky).
