What A Wiki Sticket!

Amongst the fabulous innovations the Internet has given us is Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia.

This little gem of web-based co-operation has information which ranges from the sublime (did you know that the model for the doctor in William Hogarth's The Harlot's Progress was the often satirized French physician John Misaubin?) to the ridiculous (did you know that the R-100 Series is a series of fictional mass-produced robots which have featured in every TimeSplitters game created?)

Did you also know that sensitive politicians in the US are getting their staffers to 'tweak' their entries to make look less daft. But they've been caught out big time:

US Senators' staffers have been caught editing their bosses' entries on the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia, according to an investigation by news website Wikinews.

Reporters from Wikinews collected a series of IP addresses which were the source of the edits, and with the help of people who emailed Senate offices and collected the IPs they received in replies, were able to match individul addresses to computers in a brace of Senator's offices. IP (Internet Protocol) addresses are the unique numbers used to communicate between individual computers.

Such clumsy attempts to manage public perception simply leave you more open to ridicule.

Business Communications Management can assist you and organisation to develop a positive image - doing it the right way.

Farewell Card

Australia's first 'true blue' credit card, The Bankcard, is to be phased out.

First appearing in 1974, in the middle of a credit squeeze, the Bankcard itself has been squeezed by major international players Visa and Mastercard in addition to the veritable deck of cards offered by banks and other financial institutions