Rives: Reinventing the encyclopedia game

[webmasterdt]

That's my picture of Chimborazo. And my contribution to Wikipedia and the World. :)

[thomasdennis]

Leave Rives alone. He makes people wonder about the what ifs and is a fabulous story teller. People just have to hate something.

[oppernaR]

Yes, yes and yes! It's always a pleasure to listen to and mostly watch Rives speak.

[Koribaby]

Rives is such a delightful individual. I want to say Chimborazo, but I definitely already knew that before seeing this.

[jacobreinvented]

Great description of how the internet has revolutionized how we access information. Solid Talk.

[ciaochowbella]

This wasn't a game at our house. This was SOP. My mother, the teacher, never told us ANY answer to ANY question. Her reply was, "Look it up." The result was that we wore out two sets of encyclopedias and now I'm an ace researcher. I might not know everything, but I can find it!

[snufalofargalo]

I have a very similar game that I play: every time you click a hyper link in Wikipedia you take a drink. Once you admit to yourself that you're suitably drunk you try to remember what your initial query was. If you can remember where you started you win the game... for that round.

[AonGuardian]

His encyclopedia game reminds me of a bit called, "How you like me now, " that Jimmy Fallon performs on his show where you get from one disparate subject matter to be related to his show by stating something related to the starting subject and then a related subject to that until you get to his show name. Of course, there's no end subject to try and reach in the encyclopedia game, but it sounds pretty fun!

[HappyPhilS]

Thanks. I used to visit the encyclopedia a lot when I was a kid in the 1950's. It's even more fun using today's technology with all the links to further information.

[Bananasterr]

Finally another rive presentation! He's the whole reason I subscribed!

[Red_Proton]

I still play that game! I remember doing it too as a kid. Except, I stop when my original curiosity is satisfied because I go off on tangents a lot. Awesome Tedtalk!

[sanketbaxi]

He's Rives. If you are watching one of this talks expecting a point, you don't know him. His talks are more about entertainment than information. Most of them include poetry. He's a pretty fun guy to watch.

[dirtbikeboyz]

i knew the cue ball fact at the end. this game is so cool.

[kakisuaya]

I know what game I'll be playing during my study breaks this fall! :)

[brodman]

nice to see well presented speech.

i wish i had this guys level of interest,
my search would go something like this
Earth, tropics, FACEBOOK, League of Legends, FACEBOOK, BEDTIME

[melcor]

Thats a pretty awesome game, I usually start off with a random page to start with instead of choosing one myself... think my record is to get from a random page to a choosed "destination" in 6 or 7 pages.

[Jotto]

This is actually pretty old, but I liked and faved anyway because it's good and I haven't seen it mentioned on any other channels I watch.

[Kombaiyashii]

I played this game kind of unconsciously, get to learn quite a bit of stuff very quickly.

[agemoz]

Wikipedia has dedicated moderators that correct and deny editing from people who try to harm the integrity of the website.

Also, anyone can edit an encyclopedia, all they need is a pen.

[mai]

I love his museum of 4 in the morning. Of course I love this too! His awesome!! Love you from Japan