{"id":930,"date":"2010-11-16T17:53:20","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T16:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/?p=930"},"modified":"2010-11-16T17:55:47","modified_gmt":"2010-11-16T16:55:47","slug":"cool-bananas-and-wikipedia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/11\/16\/cool-bananas-and-wikipedia\/","title":{"rendered":"Cool bananas and wikipedia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=epredator\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>This week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itv.com\/citvonline\/coolstuffcollective\/\">Cool Stuff Collective<\/a> a.k.a Show 10 is currently airing. I just spoke about the show a little in my panel at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/11\/14\/virtual-goods-world-europe-conference-time-again\/\">Virtual Goods World Europe<\/a> and had to admit that if people tune in on Saturday on ITV they will only see me as a banana not as a tech geek. However&#8230;. that&#8217;s just awesome !<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/epredator\/5178651251\/\" title=\"Monkey, Donkey and Bananas by epredator, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4148\/5178651251_5265439789.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"360\" alt=\"Monkey, Donkey and Bananas\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe show has some great stuff in it, Monkey wins the lottery (apparently I helped him). The irony of it being the lottery may become apparent in a few weeks time, but I will leave that a mystery.<br \/>\nSy get to play Harry Potter on the Kinect and does a pretty good job of sorting out the spells.<br \/>\nHowever in out very own &#8220;COOOOOOL NEWS&#8221; cue camera shake&#8230; The Cool Stuff Collective has made it to Wikipedia. It was already listed with no link as a CITV show but is very much alive and well on there now. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Cool_Stuff_Collective\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Cool_Stuff_Collective<\/a><br \/>\nI already had some references too as epredator so I have reached the heady heights of having my very own bio page on there too with lots of references to all the other work I did with virtual worlds and with the media, Newsnight, Business Week, Sky News etc.<br \/>\nThe page is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ian_Hughes(aka_epredator)\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ian_Hughes(aka_epredator)<\/a> is you want to go and contribute any extras for me, as you know we cant edit our own pages, so a big thumbs up to crowdsourcing at work.<br \/>\nI have donated to Wikipedia now too as it needs out support and I use it all the time, so if you have a spare few quid please help it out.<br \/>\nIf anyone out there wants to write Sy Thomas&#8217;s page he needs one! <\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.feedingedge.co.uk%2Fblog%2F2010%2F11%2F16%2Fcool-bananas-and-wikipedia%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><div name=\"googleone_share_1\" style=\"position:relative;z-index:5;float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><g:plusone size=\"tall\" count=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/11\/16\/cool-bananas-and-wikipedia\/\"><\/g:plusone><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s Cool Stuff Collective a.k.a Show 10 is currently airing. I just spoke about the show a little in my panel at Virtual Goods World Europe and had to admit that if people tune in on Saturday on ITV they will only see me as a banana not as a tech geek. 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