What is whoisi.com?
Thursday, June 26, 2008 by Dave Winer.
This site showed up in my referrer logs. 
Not sure what to make of it. Looks quite interesting.
I hadn't heard of it till today, but I see it's being discussed on Twitter.
I think I get it -- it's a wiki-like FriendFeed?
The opportunities for abuse abound (but there are obvious ways to fix things, if you claim your own person, and correct the links). It's very clever. Why didn't I think of it?? 
One of the things I love about it is that it does the right thing with RSS descriptions. Bravo!!
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