Thursday, October 16, 2008

Social Biography Experiment


Today at work, we decided to run a little experiment. My friend Terence said he wanted to open his life up for editing through the magic of Wikipedia. After creating a blank page with his name on it, he started filling in details (so far, completely accurate) about his life, but we're encouraging everyone we know to create a far more impressive biography for him with ensuing Wikipedia edits. I will add my own shortly.


While fundamentally this goes against everything that makes Wikis good, we're hoping that it grows in that way that only viral internet things can. A new form of non-factual infotainment will be born. Now, we've already been made aware by Wikipedia that the page was the target for rapid deletion because they didn't know who he was... but we've jumped through the first hoops, and can now watch it bloom...


Without further ado, please help us write the life story of Terence Yip.

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