I never thought that doing that resembles an adventure game with too many lawyers involved.

Well, after having some time invested in setting up a startup firm I’m happy to announce that we are in line. In line with going to the market. Our firm is called permalink and our product is called Nextspace.

We will offer services and an application that will drastically change the way organizations and corporations understand their way of internal communications, additionally educational institutions are part of our quest.

Reference from Jan Schmidt to a paper on the German election campaigns that take place on the internet especially in weblogs. He concludes with a statement that there is still a gap between the discussions in the blogosphere and its reception via traditional mass media.
He keeps wondering what (agenda-setting) could drive professional media to not only observe and ridicule that part of the world but to interact with it.

Get back to stable truth and knowledge. I’m not sure if this move isn’t to much a concession to move from the margins of innovation the center of recognition. Could be a commercial argument. The wikipedia was meant to be a testbed for an encyclopedia in the first place.

Wikipedia and the editorial rules: “

[...] In an interview with German daily Suddeutsche Zeitung,Wales,who launched Wikipedia with partner Larry Sanger in 2001,said it needed to find a balance between protecting information from abuse and providing open access to improve entries.’There may soon be so-called stable contents.In this case,we’d freeze the pages whose quality is undisputed,’ he said.[...]

Wikipedia to tighten editorial rules

Update: a translation error misinterpreted a statement of Wikipedia´s Jimmy Wales. According to Ross Mayfield no new editorial rules in sight.