Curry begrudged
Workbench: Adam Curry Caught in Sticky Wiki Ooops! Do they use the term: “tit in a wringer” in Holland? This should be interesting. Personally I give Curry the idea for the invention, what are the facts anyway?
When someone edits Wikipedia without logging in to a user account, the IP address is recorded to guard against abuse. Four times this year, an IP address controlled by Curry, 82.108.78.107, has made revisions involving the early history of podcasting.
On Feb. 5, someone at Curry’s address removed a sentence crediting Stephen Downes with distributing MP3 audio files over RSS:
The recovery of MP3 links from distributed weblogs and distribution of the aggregated list using RSS had been demonstrated by Stephen Downes’s [5] Ed Radio [6], launched June 9, 2004.
On the same day, Curry wasn’t getting sufficient props in another sentence, “Podcasting was developed, according to Curry [7] in August, 2004,” and it was edited to correct this injustice: “Podcasting was developed thanks to Adam Curry’s original iPodder script and the success it fostered since [7] August, 2004.”
On Nov. 3, a sentence was removed that credited Kevin Marks with programming a podcasting script…
found by Chris Coulter via Workbench
Curry is a snake. That’s just the type of person he is.
In an episode of twit Leo and Kevin basically said screw him when he was previewing their shows on his podcast show without their permission and violating their non-disclosure or whichever document that was.
What a tool.
Maybe someone should add a section to the history of podcasting something like this:
“December 2005, self important podcaster Adam Curry caught attempting to rewrite podcasting history to inflate his own ego”.
Or maybe this:
“Poscaster Adam Curry provides demostration of how insignificant he really is when in December 2005 he is caught attempting to rewrite the history of podcasting to promote his own self image.”
~Mark
Here’s another interesting story about Wikipedia.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2005-11-29-wikipedia-edit_x.htm
Wkipedia keeps deleting the Church of Reality – claims that it has only one member.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Church_of_reality
Please harrass them about this.
Wikipedia also lets you retrieve all the edits by a particular user… like this. A little mucking with the wiki is news?
Urgh–what a waste of space that man is. If I were some sort of alleged online god and I were going to do something that self-serving, the least I would do is perform the edits from a publicly accessible computer, like one at a public library, so that no one could trace the edit to an IP address that I controlled. I think that since he didn’t realize he’d get caught, he’s proven quite effectively that he’s not the tech genuis that he wants everyone to think that he is.
Here is Curry’s response:
http://www.curry.com/2005/12/02#a54265
“Yesterday an rss article caught my eye with a reference to the history of podcasting as documented by WikiPedia. I couldn’t believe how convoluted and twisted the history had become, I mentioned on my podcast that neither my or Dave’s work was fairly represented anymore. So I started to edit. After about 20 minutes of trying to figure out the interface of the editing system I became exasperated and gave up. “What was I trying to prove anyway?, I thought to myself. Some of my experimentation resulted in a piece of the wiki entry being edited out. This was about Kevin Mark’s contribution. I wanted to rewrite the paragraph about him as I recalled it, about the discussions we had at BloggerCon and the follow up emails. So, no editing war intended, pilot error. I apologize for any confusion.”
Man of the neverending hair cut. Adam – The 80’s is over…….