Why Wikipedia is Worthless

September 24, 2008 05:44 by bjones

I've always thought of Wikipedia as a good source of information.  I feel it becomes more accurate over time as more people contribute and ideas evolve unhindered.  I learned today that I have been wrong.

My city, Lake Forest, California, has a very informative page on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Forest,_California. Well, informative up to the point of "Notable Residents."  Two people, Dan Huard and Armando Alvarez seem to be very proud of themselves.  Dan Huard feels he is notable because he works at Digg and Armando feels he is notable because he won an award for design.  Neither of them are any more notable than me or you to the public at large.  As a small protest about the stupidity of having these "Notable Residents," I decided to edit the page and add a friend of mine that I feel is Notable.  Some of his qualifications are as follows:

  • Good person
  • Hard worker
  • Has a great family that he supports
  • Has a beautiful daughter
  • He bought a house in Foothill Ranch a year ago
  • College graduate
  • Winner of Red Robin's Valentine Day Engagement Story Competition
  • As he jokingly says, "A friend first, entertainer second and father third".

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Vacation Time!

September 8, 2008 15:00 by bjones

Cherish and I are taking a week off to go to Maui.  We're staying 5 nights at the Grand Wailea. I will post some pictures while we are there. Watch the blog for a cool map of the pictures.


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