So, I found a friend of mine had moved to Surabaya, in Indonesia (temporarily while she waits for a US Visa). So, I said, where the hell is that (not Indonesia, but Surabaya in Indonesia) ... I think I went from Surabaya, and I kept clicking on sister cities, eventually finding Sau Paulo ... where I read that Sau Paulo has 11,000,000 people or something. I said, 'Shit! That's bigger than NYC.' So I wiki-ed that, then I wiki-ed metropolitan statistical area statistics, then some other statistics, looked at various other cities. Suffice it to say, I ended up using almost an hour and a half wiking random shit.
All I remember is which island Surabaya is on (I could point it out on a map at least). Sau Paulo is a huge city, New York Metro area has 19,000,000 people which is short of Tokyo, and slightly short of Mexico City and Seoul (I think, NYC was fourth in that 'stat'
. It was second in in a different statistical category, still 16 million behind Tokyo though.
Anyway ..
All I remember is which island Surabaya is on (I could point it out on a map at least). Sau Paulo is a huge city, New York Metro area has 19,000,000 people which is short of Tokyo, and slightly short of Mexico City and Seoul (I think, NYC was fourth in that 'stat'
. It was second in in a different statistical category, still 16 million behind Tokyo though. Anyway ..
1) Do you get caught in Wiki Search Votices?
It's more like a 'click the hyperlink' vortex, but yes.
2) How much time do you waste?
Couple of hours usually.
3) Do you think you learn anything or is it all kind of fade away pretty quick?
It'll get stuck in the back of my mind somewhere where I will forget about it until some random comment reminds me of it and then I'll blurt it out and my friends will give me funny looks again.
4) Is wikipedia a good thing or a bad thing?
Depends on what you're doing with it.
5) What type of topics do you find yourself typically lost in, or is it random?
Completely random. Last time it was highway interchanges after someone on a forum mentioned it during a conversation about bad driving. I spent an hour looking at highway interchanges. And how interstates differ in the U.S. and Canada.
6) Any other comments.
Do you ever get lost in Wiki Search Vortices
- 26/12/2009 05:25:30 AM
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I remembered that Boston was the 10th largest Metro area, with 4.5 million or so.
- 26/12/2009 05:30:04 AM
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I rather doubt that the New York Metro area has 2839 times the population of the entire earth.
- 26/12/2009 06:30:36 AM
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Re: Do you ever get lost in Wiki Search Vortices
- 26/12/2009 08:26:33 PM
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