{"id":318,"date":"2006-04-01T13:11:38","date_gmt":"2006-04-01T20:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/?p=318"},"modified":"2006-04-01T13:11:38","modified_gmt":"2006-04-01T20:11:38","slug":"april_fools_day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=318","title":{"rendered":"April Fools Day jumps the shark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Internet <a href=\"http:\/\/tech.memeorandum.com\/060401\/h1455\">overkill<\/a> claims yet another victim. Remind me again what was so bad about scarcity.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allthingsdistributed.com\/2006\/04\/amazon_gets_im.html\">This one<\/a>, though, is funny.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE 2: The Wikipedians provide the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/April_1,_2006\">blow-by-blow<\/a>. Meticulously.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE 3: What I particularly like about that Wikipedia entry is the first sentence: &#8220;April 1, 2006 is an April Fool&#8217;s Day falling on a Saturday.&#8221; The more you read it, the better it gets. I really hope nobody edits it.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE 4: You know, I have to start writing more of these short, stupidly titled posts. This one has already earned both an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hypocritical.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/nick-carr-wins-annual-hypocritical.asp\">award<\/a> and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gapingvoid.com\/Moveable_Type\/archives\/002591.html\">cartoon<\/a>! It&#8217;s a great example of the virtuous circle of user-generated content generating more user-generated content. Like that serpent that swallows its own tail.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE 5: Wikipedia has now split its list of April Fools pranks onto two pages, one containing just <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/April_1,_2006\">&#8220;notable&#8221; pranks<\/a> and the other containing a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/April_1%2C_2006_%28Complete_List%29\">complete list<\/a> of pranks. A <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion\/April_1%2C_2006_%28Complete_List%29\">heated debate<\/a> has also broken out between a group of Wikipedians who believe the complete list should be deleted because it contains &#8220;non-notable&#8221; pranks and another group of Wikipedians who believe the complete list should be maintained for posterity. &#8220;Captain Cornflake&#8221; (probably not his real name) writes, &#8220;Does having it here hurt anything? I&#8217;m positive that at least for the next week, this article is going to be getting thousands of people, wanting to check out various jokes. I know I will. It will also serve as a handy guide of the events that transpired yesterday to future generations.&#8221; I&#8217;m with Cornflake on this one. What seems like a non-notable prank today may seem like a notable prank to those future generations. I think it&#8217;s better to err on the side of caution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internet overkill claims yet another victim. Remind me again what was so bad about scarcity. UPDATE: This one, though, is funny. UPDATE 2: The Wikipedians provide the blow-by-blow. Meticulously. 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