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=== Hoped this was going to make a splash, humor works all the time.=== | |||
''June 20, 2006'' | |||
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:: ''"If you haven't seen Ze Frank's hilarious [http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2006/06/061206.html videoblog], it's worth checking out. A few weeks ago he challenged visitors to create an "Earth Sandwich" where two pieces of bread are placed exactly opposite each other on the globe. Google mashups showing what's on the opposite side of the Earth and a live GeoRSS-based bread gallery were provided. A piece [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5492174 on NPR this Saturday] details the concept and a team from New Zealand and Spain completed the challenge. Then on Friday he allowed his show to be written by his viewers who battled out 2,000+ script revisions in a [[Zefrank|Wiki]]. Sunday's [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/18/fashion/sundaystyles/18ze.html New York Times] describes the results." via [http://slashdot.org/articles/06/06/19/1718219.shtml Slashdot]'' | |||
Ze Frank is getting more popular, and one of the tricks in his bag is a wiki that he is encouraging folks to help write the daily 3 minute video weblog show. Very fun. After the first script was written by many, many folks fighting to have what they thought funny be on the front of the script, it was like writing by committee. I suggested they think about the wiki in a different way, and [http://www.zefrank.com/wiki/index.php/Talk:Fabuloso_Friday/The_Script#no_need_to_focus_on_one_version.2C_with_wiki_there_could_be_many_versions reconsider focusing on the main page]. | |||
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=== [http://recentchanges.info/?p=84 zefrank vblog] === | |||
''June 9th, 2006'' | |||
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Over at the wonderful video weblog [http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/ zefrank], he has opened up the script writing up to contributors of his wiki [[Zefrank]]. | |||
[http://www.zefrank.com/wiki/index.php/Fabuloso_Friday The wiki is used to write the script] for [http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2006/06/060906.html the show: Fabulouso Friday]. Was it successful? | |||
'''Congratulations on 1,500+ script edits and over 15,000 views of the Fabuloso Friday script!''' | |||