In a brilliant use of wiki technology, evan has launched the wiki clock, which uses the wisdom of the crowd to maintain an up-to-date, anyone-can-edit, clock. I just checked the clock, and the time was wrong. In the old days, I would have just moved along, thinking “what a crappy clock.” But, because it is a wikiclock, I was able to easily edit the time so that it was correct. Anyone can do the same.
Some will say: “But this clock will often be inaccurate.” But the point is, 1. it is free, and 2. eventually, with enough editors, this clock will, on balance, often have the correct time.
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May 22, 2007 at 1:04 pm
Boris
This is a joke right? Please tell me it’s a joke Hugh…
May 22, 2007 at 1:06 pm
Boris
ok phew.
May 22, 2007 at 1:12 pm
Hugh
i wasn’t sure how to answer that question ;-)
May 22, 2007 at 3:32 pm
Evan Prodromou
Well, it’s ha ha only serious. Sure, it’s a rampant abuse of the wiki technique to have thousands of humans do what a 2-cent microchip can do, but… what if it actually worked? There’s an almost mystical quality to a human-edited clock.
May 23, 2007 at 4:41 pm
jer
This is the most beautiful idea I’ve heard all week.
p.s. All the cool kids love the Subscribe to Comments plugin, cause then they get emails when other people comment, then they come back and make it a discussion. (should be in WP by default, silly developpers)
May 23, 2007 at 9:51 pm
hugh
“All the cool kids love the Subscribe to Comments plugin”
installed.
May 29, 2007 at 10:21 pm
Ron Evry
Well, if you set the time once and never change it, it will be correct twice a day…
May 29, 2007 at 10:42 pm
Hugh
ron, you are right, but then it would only be useful twice a day… as it stands, it is potentially useful several times a day.