The joys of Web 2.0 - Ecademy on Wikipedia

There seems to be a little debate bubbling under on Wikipedia about Ecademy. I noticed a post on Ecademy today referring to their entry on Wikipedia.

Being the nosey type, had a little trawl through the talk page and it appears that much of the controversy comes from some ex- (or is that banned) members taking exception to some of the history.

Ah...the joys of Web 2.0 ;-)

One thing I found quite interesting was that Ecademy originally started as an "Education Portal for Electronic Commerce".


Now it all makes sense...when I've met many Ecademy members who'd been on the site from the early days, they were very much the internet-entrepreneur or techie-geek type. They were usually lamenting that it was getting full of life coaches and that the management was stopping them from putting cartoons and pictures of funny animals on their profiles instead of their "real" photos (if you miss the old pics...nip over to Last Thursday)

But, as Wikipedia demonstrates, whilst you can control how people use your site, it's a little harder to control what they say about your site.

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