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Chris Thornett's picture

Sidewiki

Google Sidewiki: "contribute helpful information to any web page" reads the blerb. Yeah, well, human nature doesn't really work that way now does it. Now it seems you can go onto pretty much any page on the web, for instance, a politician's wiki page and say what you like about their mother, father, the goat they allegedly keep in the shed for jiggy jiggy sessions and well anything really. Note: they will ban accounts that contravene Google's content policy, but that's unlikely to stop a lot of people - or spammers.

All you need to do is install Sidewiki in your browser, see if a little pencil icon comes up on the bottom left of the web page you want to leave a comment on, click the pencil and vent your spleen. The comment facility is blocked on secure web pages, but I doubt it'll be long before it's blocked on a lot of places, such as Wikipedia. In the meantime, I thought I'd do my bit for the campaign against the Digital Economy Bill. No Mandy, No!

Glamdring's picture

Sounds good to me. This

Sounds good to me. This particular bill is based on cynicism and greed. It has nothing to do with piracy - which is wrong. It's based in disinformation by the software developers and ignorance by the Government. Both need to be tackled with vigour and intelligence. Only by proving that we have the moral high ground can honest gamers win this battle.If Sidewiki and the people who comment can resist from posting obscenities and adolescent idiocies and stick to countering the developers' views point by point then we might stand a chance.

Anonymous's picture

Annoyingly.....

It seems to only work effectively when I have the ugly and unwanted google toolbar enabled. There is an option to run without but once the sidewiki tab icon on the left disappears the only way thus far I have seen to get it back is to enable the toolbar.

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