That is a good question, "where is the blog going?" and I have no definitive answer. I'm surprised any of this stuff (Wikipedia criticism in general) is still trucking on in 2025, to be honest. The reason is this: the Internet has moved on from Jimbo's Jungle, even though it still uses it as a reference. All the social media elements of Wikipedia have faded badly since CovidTime, mostly thanks to Facebook, Reddit, Pinterest, TikTok*, YouTube, all the other social media platforms. Jimbo's Jungle is a website trapped in the past of Web 2.0, and in many ways it seems to be coasting on nostalgia and doing awful articles on current events like they are some sort of online newsletter for Juno email users, which would be utter suicide if Wikipedia was a for-profit institution.
....And don't get me started about the crap I have to finish on this blog: the Fram article, the Randi article, other things from years past....and that's rough, because it means getting back into old mindsets, and the article on CEDU I finished after a period of time was really a turkey because I couldn't stick the landing, but then that was a hard one to end due to the fact that CEDU pulled a "Mel from Alice" and quit when things got too hard and thus nobody was tried for their crimes. The James Randi piece is now hard to end because many of the people involved with him have gone to ground, plus he had no staying power within American culture, even as a niche figure....it's been five years since his death, and nobody's written a critical book on him, all I could find was this 2024 Medium post which is a re-uploading of a Boing Boing article from 2020. All that written, I will try to close the books on what is unfinished.
Happy Holidaze!
* For as long as that lasts, everybody seems to have forgotten that the GOP wants the site sold to an American company or banned if they can't.
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