Should you ever be interviewed by The History Channel in your office, it would be best not to have the Wikipedia entry for the topic about which they are interviewing you clearly visible on your monitor. Have a little faith in your expertise or dignity enough to close that damn tab.*
*Shamelessly stolen from my own Facebook note of a couple days past, but posted here because some member of the increasingly Duggar-esque family of The History Channel networks repeated the episode of Mega Movers in which I first noticed it . . . and because it’s sound advice.
4 comments
September 23, 2009 at 10:56 pm
jay boilswater
Jaysus…a teleprompter!
September 24, 2009 at 9:55 am
Sybil Vane
“It’s excellent advice,” says the woman who, no matter how hard she tries, can’t resist googling “How to Teach X” right before she has to go to a class on X.
September 24, 2009 at 10:24 am
rea
A couple of threads ago, we established that Wikipedia is constantly being edited to bring it into conformity with XKCD–so why look up something in Wikipedia? Why not go directly to the source?
September 24, 2009 at 2:14 pm
nick
Maybe, maybe the Wikipedia article is up there because he was, I dunno, writing or editing it? I’ll grant it’s unlikely, but is a possibility. Though, as I’ve learned from this blog, just because you’re on TV you’re suddenly “an expert” in whatever field they run through the tilting software to lend credibility to the story they’re selling.