The Wikipedia blackout may be teaching protest groups plenty today. No question, its impact is being felt.
I am slaving over a major research project about online video. I keyed in "corporate online video," then clicked on what Wikipedia had to say. Instead I got its message about the Congressional antipiracy proposal. Incidentally, when I went to the Google's search engine, the same message was there.
Occupy Wall Street, NEW YORK Magazine reports, will be traveling all the way to Davos to make its message known to the World Economic Forum. Could it be more effective if it attracted the skills of the code crowd and configured its protest on the web and mobile?
Time will answer that question as we assess the hit Wikipedia blackout has had on the world economy. Money is the most compelling message.
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